The summits are not endpoints. They are the mechanism by which two countries, which can neither resolve their differences nor afford to rupture them, manage the interval between crises.
[T]he U.S. and Israel are fixated on “decapitation strikes" ... [which] is just as absurd as believing the Iranian people would cooperate with U.S.-Israeli military strikes against their own country.
[W]hen ethics are abandoned for epics, and when political power subverts rational military decision-making, it is not surprising that symptoms of strategic fatigue begin to develop.