NEVER IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN CONFLICT was so much said by so many for so little. “[T]he torrent of words that spewed forth for two days at the Washington Convention Center would have been enough to fill every missile silo in the world.... [but] ... We are no closer to meaningful sanctions against a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. And the only countries to have ever been caught disseminating nuclear capacity – Pakistan and North Korea – were not part of the discussion.”

The Washington Post story (Obama secures 47-nation pact at nuclear summit, 14 April) is here.