Elliott Abrams: "Every dictatorship in Latin America with the rarest of exceptions ends with a negotiation."

Abrams: "If you want to propose an American invasion, that's fine, go ahead and propose it. But if that's not going to happen, then how does this come to an end? And our view is that it comes to an end the way it came to an end in most of Latin America."

Abrams: "People should go back and look at South Africa...Nelson Mandela was elected, and what did he do? How many of those people did he send to jail? The answer is, almost none."