"The Iranians are playing a colossal game of chicken with us," says Ilan Berman, vice-president of the American Foreign Policy Council. "Does the international community have the will to take the short-term pain and disarm these guys, or accept the long-term pain of a region completely dominated by this regime? I think the world community has essentially come to grips with the fact that Iran is going to go nuclear. The talks are an implicit endorsement of Iranian nuclearization."

Next, Andrew Bostom, who’s investigated the historical roots of Iran’s annihilationist policies.

Funny how Jimbo “Eff the Jews” Baker and Lee Hamilton, the guys in charge of the “study group” responsible for that cockamamie “no nukes are good nukes” report released in the winter of ’06—the one that effectively handcuffed the president from doing anything substantive about Iran—haven’t had much to say of late.