The negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad had to fail. That doesn’t mean future rounds, perhaps already starting this week, are futile. But the American approach to diplomacy has doomed the talks so far for the same two reasons that it has hampered efforts to broker a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, say, or to turn the fragile truce in the Gaza Strip into a lasting denouement between Israelis and Palestinians.
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America’s Amateur Diplomats Are Set Up to Fail
