The naivete of a sophomore isolationist vice president in JD Vance has at the least proven that the United States has no chance to reach a satisfactory agreement of peace with Iran. Is seeking Iran’s de facto surrender our only successful strategy? It appears so.

After five weeks of amazingly successful bombing, the following 13 weeks — of troubled negotiation of a highly aspirational “agreement to agree” — should have seared on our collective cerebrum that a deal, even a bad one, with the allegedly representative Iranian regime is, at bottom, impossible.