For the most powerful nation on earth
to refuse to talk with
its adversaries
without concessions
is
chickenshit:

the product of a small minded
parochial
politic

Sean Bonner translated the National Anthem into binary code. Here are the first two bars:

01001111 01101000 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 00100000 01100010 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100100 01100001 01110111 01101110 00100111 01110011 00100000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00001101 00001010 (via boing boing)