The Best Anyone Can Hope For With Iran Is Pretty Bad

Tom Friedman: “Dealing effectively with Iran’s Islamic regime — in a way that permanently eliminates its malign behavior — is impossible. Iran is too big to invade; the regime is too ensconced to be toppled from the outside; its darkest impulses, to dominate its Sunni Arab neighbors and destroy the Jewish state, are too dangerous to ignore; and its people are too talented to be forever denied a nuclear capability.”

“So, when dealing with Iran, you do what you can, where you can, how you can, but with the understanding that (1) perfect is not on the menu and (2) Iran’s Islamic regime is not going to change.”