Iranians who took to the streets this summer to protest electoral fraud failed to win a new election. But they nevertheless returned concerns about the Islamic republic’s human rights record to the international stage.
Diplomacy should always be a strategy of first resort. But Obama should realize that diplomacy with dictatorships is not the same as diplomacy among democratic nations.
As the crisis in Gaza enters its second week, international diplomats are seeking a cease-fire. It won't work. Knee-jerk diplomacy -- demanding a truce regardless of the cause of the fighting -- does more to accelerate conflict than to resolve it.
Despite the demonization of George W. Bush, the current president has been more open to diplomacy with the Islamic republic than any president since Carter. But it takes two to tango.
