What The Hawks Miss About The Iran TalksA lot of Trump’s critics are treating the Switzerland talks as a humiliation, a sellout, or a failure waiting to happen.That misses the point.The war came first because, in a real sense, it had to come first. For Americans old enough to remember 1979—and Donald Trump is certainly one of them—the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was never just a diplomatic incident. It was an act of war, covered at the time by the regime’s fig leaf that “students” had done it rather than the regime itself.The United States never imposed a price commensurate with that act. Jimmy Carter’s response lodged in the American memory as weakness. For a country that still thinks in terms of honor, deterrence, and humiliation, that mattered.Now Iran has paid a price.American and Israeli strikes killed Ali Khamenei, Ali Larijani, Ali Shamkhani, Mohammad Pakpour, Aziz Nasirzadeh, Abdolrahim Mousavi, Esmail Khatib, Gholamreza Soleimani, Behnam Rezaei, Alireza Tangsiri, Majid Khademi, and other senior regime, military, intelligence, and IRGC figures. They destroyed Khamenei’s compound. They hit Iranian air defenses, command nodes, missile infrastructure, naval assets, and military facilities repeatedly. The regime survived, but America and Israel punished it.That matters on the American side of the ledger.It matters on the Iranian side too.Before we get to why, a brief word from our sponsor. A Brief Word From Our SponsorOur system's top names are trouncing the market. Here’s a mobile friendly version. pic.twitter.com/9nPskOTgW8