During every phase in American world dominance we have negotiated with enemies. Some were enemies we opposed in shooting wars, some in cold wars, some in economic wars. But negotiating is the only option to fighting. You do recognize don't you that our adversaries hold us in the same contempt as you hold them and believe we cannot be trusted. They have ample evidence of our underhandedness and onesidedness. Does any country have a better spy network of satellites, easedropping, human spies, than the US? Has any other country adamantly insisted on UN inspections of one side's nuclear projects while simultaneously refusing any inspection or accounting of its own arsenal? I know, we only use our might for good against the "evildoers" so we don't have to be open, just trust us. So yes, I would advocate negotiating with radical Islamic theocracies I think we already do that with the most radical theocracy, Saudi Arabia. You know the country that has a LOT OF OIL, and where most of money for 911 and most of the pilots for 911 and most of the heads being chopped off by a government is being done. And Reagan, he of blessed memory, of course was adept at reasoning with those godless heathen atheistic commies including giving away our right to have as many ICBM's and nukes as we wanted. Reasoning with a country whose leader had pledged to "bury us"