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This is John Batchert, a conversation with colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution

writing at real clear politics, about an article by Franklin IV of the Atlantic Monthly,

but generally about the Biden administration's State Department and

its negotiations with Iran and its surrogates, Hamas, Hezbollah, PFLP, certainly the gangs on the West Bank and the Hezbollah gangs in Iraq, all of the

bad actors at Iran's direction to destroy Israel.

And the article by 4 and Peter's case

is that the administration's State Department

is self-congratulatory. They did the best they can. Here's

Peter to explain how the lack of success turns out to be an achievement for the

Biden administration all these years.

More of this later.

Yes, that's right.

He's sympathetic because he accepts the

accepts the Biden administration's conclusion from last August, that is the conclusion of its top

...