GOP Heavy Hitters Pressuring White House to Talk With Iran - Los Angeles Times

Does anyone else get the impression that this administration, like bullies on playgrounds everywhere, won't talk to people who scare them?

GOP Heavy Hitters Pressuring White House to Talk With Iran - Los Angeles Times:

"WASHINGTON - Amid concern that the U.S. is drifting toward eventual confrontation with Iran, a growing number of influential statesmen, Republican senators and foreign policy experts are stepping up pressure on the Bush administration to consider doing what no U.S. administration has done in 27 years: talk directly with Iran.

In recent congressional hearings, think-tank conferences, op-ed essays and media appearances, Republican heavyweights, including former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), have publicly urged the administration to leave the current path of escalation and join European allies in direct talks with Tehran."