From an Interview with Ehud Barak earlier today on Fox News :

On negotiating with Hezbullah...

"It's like you negotiating with bin Laden. These guys are getting orders from heaven; what exactly are you going to negotiate?"

I find this candor refreshing, in light of the disingenuous calls for "a proportionate response" from the very same people who decry the "cycle of violence" that a tit-for-tat response perpetuates.  What do you negotiate with people whose only goal is to kill you? 

Would that our statesmen had such clarity.