Talking to Ahmadinejad

This war - call it the Islamic crusade - started with the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979. We are in such a bad state now, twenty-seven years later, that we need to think about negotiating with one of the people who helped to plan the attack on our embassy: President Ahmadinejad. That's one true measure of how far we've come, how far we've fallen.

Perhaps we should negotiate. It's not a good sign that we have to, though.