There are those who privately express profound concern that a president Obama's naiveté on Iran would give the regime enough time to complete its bomb program. Others, though, believe that Obama might oversee a more sophisticated approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than the current administration's intense effort to secure a thoroughly unimplementable "shelf agreement," and that his willingness to employ face-to-face diplomacy with Iran is a necessary precondition for galvanizing domestic and international support for an ultimate resort to military action when diplomacy fails.