I've been waiting patiently for Matthew Yglesias to explain the sudden end to Obama's "Accidental Foreign Policy," which met its demise over the weekend with a report in the New York Times that the candidate does not now, nor has he ever, supported direct and immediate talks with the leader of Iran. This happened just as Yglesias published a piece in the Atlantic celebrating Obama's bold and unwavering support for direct and immediate talks with the leader of Iran.

I must know: was Obama's fearless call for talks with Ahmadinejad the correct policy? Or did Obama make no such call, and would such a policy, in fact, be naive and foolish as Hillary Clinton and John Edwards first said when Obama called (or maybe didn't call) for them?

I suspect that Obama supporters will argue that he was right when he made the call for talks, and that he is right now to say that he never did so. Still, I'm terribly confused, and Yglesias has yet to note the shift. Neither has Andrew Sullivan, for that matter. Please, gentlemen, at your earliest convenience, tell me what to make of all of this. I'm assuming we should be saluting Obama's wonderfully supple mind and extraordinary flexibility, but I'd like to be sure.