Decades of broken promises prove diplomacy cannot succeed while the current regime remains in power.
One has to wonder why President Trump is still negotiating with Iran. Mr. Trump has said that the cease-fire is over because Iran is still launching missiles and drones against our bases in Qatar, Bahrain, and Jordan and shooting at ships in the Strait of Hormuz. We have undertaken several nights of air raids against Iran, hitting dozens of military targets. But he has agreed with the Iranians that negotiations toward a peace deal will continue.
Why?
The regime in Tehran has threatened to assassinate Mr. Trump which is the rough equivalent of a declaration of war. Wars throughout history — including World War One — were started (or widened) by such assassinations.
We cannot take those threats lightly as evidenced by the fact that the president returned from the recent NATO meeting not aboard the fancy new Air Force One that the Qataris gave him but an older aircraft which had better missile defenses aboard. Mr. Trump’s aircraft should never go anywhere without fighter escorts.
The Tehran regime is expert at stalling negotiations and then ignoring the result. They want to drag out negotiations as long as they can, then agree to some deal that they have no intention of abiding by. It’s what they do as the past 47 years have proved beyond doubt.
Many famous people are misquoted regularly. In the case of Albert Einstein, perhaps the most famous misquote that’s attributed to him is his definition of insanity.
Mr. Einstein purportedly said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” There’s no evidence that he actually said or wrote that, but it’s still called his theory of insanity.