I've been pessimistic lately that it's even possible to make a useful point with movies, what with Michael Moore, George Clooney and other such aggressive know-nothings crowding the movie marketplace with tripe like Farenheit 9/11 and Syriana.  But reaching back into history, it occurs to me that a movie that was intended for one thing can be used to illustrate what some folks need to learn about the threats we face today.

War Games, a fine little film from many years back had some of my favorite actors doing quite good work.  It was an attempt to convince people that the USA needed to unilaterally dismantle its nuclear arsenal since, after all, there are no winners in a nuclear war.  The game of nuclear war is futile, it said, like tic-tac-toe.  But how to teach the computer, or worse, a Bilderberger automaton occupying the White House, the meaning of futility?

Frankly, I think our current President is one of the very few who knows already.  Don't negotiate with Saddam Hussein.  Don't negotiate with Iran.  Don't negotiate directly with the very ronery Kim Jong-Il.  Don't negotiate with Arafat.  Don't negotiate with the Taliban.  It may be time to stop negotiating with France.  Why?  Because it's futile.

We learned over many years that agreements with these people mean nothing.  Why would we continue negotiating with such people?  Just to say we're negotiating?  Just to placate the weenies who believe that we can resolve anything with negotiation?  When exactly do we conclude that negotiations have been, are and will be fruitless?

We know from the results of the 1994 Agreed Framework that if we make an agreement with North Korea, they will go on ahead and do what they were going to do anyway.  There's no reason at all to negotiate with these swine.  Work towards regime change in whatever way you have to, but please realize that negotiation is fruitless.