Talk to Iran?Before you answer that question please consider the following quote....

"Islam was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them (a.k.a kill, murder, etc.) wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."

- -Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the ambassador to Britain from the "Dey of Algiers.", 1805

That quote came in response to a question by Thomas Jefferson & John Adams, ambassadors to France and Britain respectfully, asking the Algerian ambassador why his people had so much hostility towards Americans.

For years the American government paid Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages, but not long after Jefferson's inauguration in 1801, he changed the "tone" of the US' relationship with the "Barbary Pirates" from the Barbary Coast of North Africa. He dispatched the USS Constitution, USS Constellation, USS Philadelphia, USS Chesapeake, USS Argus, USS Syren and USS Intrepid to the Mediterranean. Time for "talk" and "tributes" was over.

Jefferson was opposed, proposing a settlement of the issue "through the medium of war." What transpired next is referenced in the words “…to the shores of Tripoli” mentioned in the Marine Corps Hymn and consummated in the extremists no longer attacking America.

Instead of USS Constitution the US sends USS Eisenhower, instead of USS Constellation, the US dispatched USS Stennis and the Pentagon will soon announce another-a third US aircraft carrier task force will be sent to the Persian Gulf.

Time for talk & tribute are over.