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January 26, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060125/oppose25.art.htm

Don't Deal with Terrorists

(USA Today) Daniel Pipes - An increasing number of voices are calling for Hamas to be recognized, arguing that the imperatives of governance would tame it. The historical record, however, refutes this "pothole theory of democracy." Mussolini made the trains run, Hitler built autobahns, Stalin cleared the snow, and Castro reduced infant mortality - without any of these totalitarians giving up their ideological zeal nor their grandiose ambitions. Like al-Qaeda, Hamas should be destroyed, not legitimated, much less courted.

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