40 years of endless negotiations for "an ever closer union", where everyone had to follow certain rules (except keep your budget in line, apparently), has trained a generation of European diplomats to focus on process rather than results.
In reading the piece, I couldn't help thinking about Monty Python's "holy hand grenade."
Seriously, the Left in the US is pretty soon going to start claiming GWB "let" the Iranians have a nuclear weapon through inaction. We conservatives have to make a pre-emptive strike, by demonstrating that Euro-style "patient negotiations" didn't work with Iran, and wouldn't have worked in Iraq either.
Europe has to jump on the bandwagon and take care of Iran in what ever way works. Europe has to stop depending on the USA to contantly pull their irons out of the fire. Europe had better stop talking and start making plans. We would of course back them up.