initiating dialogue

My friend thast has made much the same comment as this article - that we should be trying to talk to terrorists instead of talking about them and responding violently to them. I'm not sure exactly how much good this attempt is doing but it's got to be something. Obviously, American tactics are doing nothing except create more terrorists and support the terrorist belief that America is the home of satan.

There's not much else I can even say about this that isn't either blatantly obvious or being said more succintly in many other places.