When Britain announced that they'd be engaging the child murdering pathological lunatics from Hezbollah, the idea was that they'd get Hezbollah to change their tone:

On Wednesday, a British minister said the government was open to talks with Hezbollah's political wing. "We have reconsidered the position...in light of more positive developments within Lebanon," Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell told a parliamentary committee. "For that reason we have explored establishing contacts." He said he was referring to the formation in July last year of a unity government in which Hezbollah and its allies hold effective veto power, as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political conflict in the country. "We will look to have further discussions and our overriding objective within that is to press Hezbollah to play a more constructive role, particularly to move away from violence," Rammell said.

Yeah, not so much:

Hezbollah deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem on Saturday said his Iranian-backed militant group expects new language from the West in dealing with it. Kassem's comments came after Hezbollah officials said they will welcome public talks with Britain. He also said he welcomed a new European approach toward the militant Lebanese group. Earlier in the week, Britain announced its decision to reestablish ties with Hezbollah as part of an effort to press the militant organization to disarm... Earlier Friday, a spokesman for the Lebanese Shi'ite group said Britain had taken a "step in the right direction" by signaling willingness to talk to Hezbollah. "This policy revision is a step in the right direction and we shall see how it translates in practical terms," Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim al-Moussawi said.

You know what? That's a really surprising reaction from a death cult that brutally tortured US Colonel Rich Higgins to death:

In the late 1980s when I was serving as an army officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a friend of mine - Colonel Rich Higgins - was kidnapped by Hezbollah while he was serving as a UN military observer in Lebanon. I was part of a small team in the Pentagon that tried very hard, through many channels, to secure Rich's release. As it turned out, he had been tortured and killed months before our efforts to free him finally ended. I am one of a small handful of Americans who knows the exact manner of Rich's death. If I were to describe it to you now - which I will not - I can guarantee that a significant number of people in this room would become physically ill. When my former business partner Rich Armitage described Hezbollah a few years ago as the "A-Team" of international terrorism and suggested that there was a "blood debt" to be paid, he was referring to a leadership cadre that is steeped in blood and brutality.

Kind of puts into perspective those rumors that Britain is laying the groundwork for Obama's own Hezbollah outreach. Or as the State Department phrased it, they'd "closely follow developments between the U.K. and Hezbollah."

Ah well. Maybe he can talk them out of trying to attack Israel's embassies. Again.

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