Just imagine

To give the foreign policy debate among U.S. Presidential candidates some immediacy, watch this TV clip in which Iranian President Ahmedinejad describes his foreign policy objectives. Those objectives clearly include wiping Israel off the map. See also how he commends the Palestinians for following in Khomenei's path, which I take as an acknowledgement of concrete as well as ideological links between Hamas and Iran.

If you were about to meet Ahmedinejad face-to-face, what would you ask for - what would you expect him to concede? And what would you be prepared to offer him in return? This isn't an imaginary issue: EU leaders have been trying to meet with him for some time now. Several years of abject failure at negotiating with him have not yet dulled their appetite. Nor can anyone (like the CIA, for example) pretend he has no nuclear ambitions, since the International Atomic Energy Agency has just published a list of worrying indicators.

Good luck.