Don't scorn diplomacy.(LETTERS)

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES In her Friday column, "Enough sarcasm," Diana West dismisses out of hand the art of diplomacy in the Middle East. She employs words like "destabilizing" and "terrorist state" to describe Iran's and Syria's actions in the region, but a hard line and name-calling is her rhetorical tactic.

It works to inflame those who seem to believe that war is always the answer. One is chilled to think of the devastation her strategy would have wrought throughout the Cold War when the Soviet Union was enemy number one, had a nuclear ...

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