In response to dictator Bashir al-Assad’s latest atrocity, the murder of 108 people in the Syrian town of Houla, “major Western powers” have threatened to expel Assad’s resident diplomats. Denying the tyrant’s ambassadors the restaurants of London and Paris — yup, that’ll certainly imperil his murderous regime.

In response to the Iranian clerical dictatorship’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, a necessary predicate to turning Israel into the “one bomb state,” these same “powers” will … well, they’ll talk to the ayatollahs’ diplomats. And keep talking, perhaps over lunch in Paris.