Announcing the LMC doctrine

This should sound familiar to those who peruse my rantings and it has probably been articulated better by others. This is the LMC Doctrine: (1) you can make a deal only with those who want to deal. Negotiations for the sake of negotiating do not work in litigation and sure as hell do not work in foreign affairs. (2) if each of the opposing sides are hell-bent on the other's destruction, decide who you want to win and give them whatever assistance they need to for victory. (3) We will have peace between Israel and radical Isalm in the form of the PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah, etc. when one side so thoroughly defeats the other that the victor imposes the peace.