It's universally recognized at this point pretty much that continuing this war with Iran is not

in the identifiable interest of the United States. We don't get anything out of continuing it

by anyone's measure. And if you doubt that, ask yourself, almost the last time someone explained

coolly and without a motion, maybe with bullet points or a PowerPoint,

how exactly we win if this goes on longer.

There's no real argument to be made.

The United States does not win if this goes on longer, and no one can claim otherwise.

People can jump up and down and attack you for asking, but they can't tell

you rationally how you're going to be safer and more prosperous, how your children will lead

better lives here in the United States, if this goes on. So everybody knows it's in our interest

to wrap this up in a way that protects core American

interests, of course, that avoids a necessary humiliation, that brings some stability to

the region, as they say.

But wrap it up.

And the administration understands this.

The Trump administration clearly understands this because news reports just in the last 24 hours have told us that the president is thinking about or planning to,

depending on who you believe, dispatch the vice president to hammer out some kind of deal with the

Iranians. And if that happens, and we don't know, just repeating what we read, then that's a pretty

clear sign that the administration wants to declare victory and move on, certainly to move on.

And they probably couldn't pick a more credible person to do it.

Ideology aside, vice president's smart,

it's honest, it's not one of the people who's gotten richer in government service. He's probably

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