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Of Smart Power and Monkeys

10:47 AM, Oct 30, 2009 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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The Obama administration's diplomatic efforts on North Korea have stalled, the peace process is going nowhere fast, and now the negotiations with Iran have collapsed entirely. The Telegraph reports on the Obama administration's now failed attempt to talk the Iranians out of their nuclear materials:

"It's like playing chess with a monkey," said one diplomat close to the talks. "You get them to checkmate, and then they swallow the king."

Monkeys with nuclear weapons -- what could go wrong?

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