A diplomat's job is to negotiate with other diplomats.

Who are the PLO and Hamas diplomats?

They are the rocket launchers and suicide bombers.

Who do you send to negotiate with them?

Armed soldiers, that's who. That's their job.

Now please read this and let me know what you think of it. It is very informative. It illustrates why I am wondering if the Iraqis can handle democracy.:

Democracy vs terrorism        
...There is a naive assumption that if local grievances or problems are solved, global terrorism will disappear. The belief or the hope that, if tomorrow, in Palestine, or Kashmir or Chechnya or wherever else, the issues were settled, terrorism will disappear, is a mistaken belief. There is now enough free-floating violence and vested interests that would need this violence to continue. There has been a multifaceted nexus between narcotics, illicit arms smuggling and human trafficking, that seeks the continuance of violence and disorder...


P.S. The reason I make those hated cut and pastes is because links go bad after a while but If I paste the information in, it will stay there.