We have just gone through an exercise in futility trying to get the Islamist Iranians to promise not to keep trying to build nuclear bombs.We couldn’t afford to believe them even if they had made that promise. Essentially what we were trying to do was get them to agree to turn over all fissionable material to the United States for permanent removal from Iran. They categorically refused to do so. That refusal caused the talks in Pakistan to collapse. We’ve been talking about the bomb and also about insuring safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.We haven’t said much about ...