The New York Times' Helene Cooper tries to let the Administration down easy but there's no hiding the fact that Obama's Iran engagement policy has failed and that they have decided to do what they should have done a year ago: isolate the Islamic state.White House officials maintain that they have not abandoned Mr. Obama's pledge of engagement, and point to the numerous times in the past year that he reached out to Iran, including a YouTube video to the Iranian people; a letter from Mr. Obama to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; and even an offer to help Iran buy isotopes for a medical research reactor. But the nonencounter in Munich between General Jones and Mr. Mottaki, like the full court press on Iran by Mrs. Clinton and other envoys to the region this week, shows that the administration is coming to terms with the limits of its engagement policy, many foreign policy experts say.Ray Takeyh, a former Iran adviser to the Obama administration, said administration...(Read Full Post)