Trying to Understand the Dance in the Persian Gulf
It will require a lot more patience and tolerance than is normal for the American people, the Congress, or the news media.
The current negotiations to achieve a long-term truce — if not peace — between America and Iran are amazingly complex and challenging to say the least.
It seems like every other day something goes wrong, either in kinetic action or in words. Then the news media enthusiastically overreacts and frames whatever happened as a potential crisis.
Yet, the larger…
