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...A.C.L.U. niceties and Bushian moral absolutes. This season, Bauer allies with Hamri al-Assad, a (putatively) reformed terrorist leader, to stop an attack. He thus displays a better grasp of realpolitik than has the Bush Administration, which resisted the Iraq Study Group's recommendation to work with Iran and Syria. A fellow agent asks Bauer if it matters that al-Assad has murdered hundreds of people. "I don't know what means anything anymore," he answers. "The playing field has changed...
...Quite a bit. But who has leverage on Syria? Well, not just - you've asked - been asked this already. Why not talk to Syria about that? And if you say the U.S. can't or it would be futile, are you asking other states to try to use their leverage with Syria to solve this - resolve this problem...
...Yeah. Well, there are lots of states that have asked Syria and they essentially haven't responded. I think the best - in some ways, the pressure on Hamas seems to be coming from inside the territories where the inability to govern because of the international embargo, which by the way when we started down this road people said oh, this will never work, you won't isolate Hamas. Well, in fact, we have isolated Hamas. The international community has isolated Hamas. And now I think the pressure because they can't govern is leading them to seek other possibilities...
...think most Americans, if they had a chance to ask you a question, Madame Secretary, would say, "Why don't we talk to Iran and Syria?" Particularly I think Syria. I think they probably draw a distinction. What would you say? Because I think it's hard sometimes for people to understand why we wouldn't talk to people. And they've heard that over the last couple of months and you seem to be saying, "I don't want to talk to those people...
...question is how does this conversation go. We were talking up until '05, February '05, and even though we weren't getting anywhere, you know, we kept trying to talk. But of course, then you had the Hariri assassination, which changed the dynamic considerably as the isolation of Syria grew because of their people thought - because of their potential role in that assassination...