Peace, Justice and the Ultimate Crime

For a time, early on in US President Donald Trump’s administration, a week seldom went by without a government rant of some sort concerning the nuclear accord struck by the prior administration with Iran and five other leading nations. Today, little mention is made of the accord in Washington, following the decision earlier this year by the Trump administration to remove Washington from the equation, despite the United States’ having been the chief architect of the seven-nation pact. Trump-Rouhani...face-off This silence—despite new attempts by the US president to impose further sanctions on Iran—is unusual but hardly incomprehensible. Unusual because Mr. Trump tends to be highly and continually vocal about his ostensible successes and actions. Comprehensible, however, because his much-heralded pullout pretty much fizzled like wet fireworks. It was apparent that Mr. Trump’s purpose in withdrawing from the pact with nothing to replace it was based more on his constant rivalry wi