To negotiate with enemies or not?   stance: yes, diplomacy can help.:
The Bush administration and now John McCain equate any negotiation or active diplomacy with enemy governments or countries/political parties they consider as terrorist to be useless at best. He supports his position by comparing any attempts to talk to Hamas or Iran or other terrorist groups as "foolish delusion" and equates diplomacy to “the false comfort of appeasement” of the Nazi's.
My feeling is that this position actually weakens the USA. It's time the government of the USA realizes we can talk to Cuba, Iran or Hamas as part of a comprehensive foreign policy approach and that be shutting the door on diplomacy we actually encourage aggression against the USA.