About the military build-up in the Middle East and negotiations with Iran, Power Line's John Hinderaker opines as follows.
It appears to me that we are in a situation where we have been negotiating for something we don’t really want, a worthless undertaking by the mullahs with regard to weapons, while marshaling a great deal of military force that, however powerful in its own terms, will not prove capable of bringing about the downfall of the mullahs, the only objective we should be working toward.
That's close to my view, as well.