“The Bush administration’s problem, and to an extent McCain’s, is they think that there is a single silver bullet meeting to be had with the Iranians where you can come away with what you want. That’s not the way it’s going to happen. It’s not the way it happened with China, or [in the Anbar Awakening] in Iraq, or any other conflict. The way it happens is with patience and strategy. And then we gradually and incrementally get things out of it.”
