ROBERT MAGINNIS: Why Islamabad talks were always doomed to fail

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ROBERT MAGINNIS: Why Islamabad talks were always doomed to fail
IRGC warned military vessels would meet a 'strong response' as US destroyers transited the strait during talks
 By Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, (ret.) Fox News
Published April 12, 2026 11:49am EDT | Updated April 12, 2026 1:59pm EDT

Clausewitz wrote that war is the continuation of policy by other means. The corollary—which Washington perpetually forgets—is that diplomacy without strategic clarity is just theater. This weekend in Islamabad, we got the theater.

Vice President JD Vance flew to Pakistan to lead the highest-level direct talks between the United States and Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He had warned Tehran before departing: "If they're going to try to play us, they're going to find the negotiating team is not that receptive." After 21 hours across multiple sessions, he boarded Air Force Two and flew home without an agreement, leaving behind what he called Washington's "final and best offer." Tehran has not accepted it.

Iran Did Not Come to Concede

Tehran's delegation—71 people, led by Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi—presented four non-negotiable conditions before the session even began: full Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, complete war reparations, unconditional release of frozen assets and a durable ceasefire across the entire West Asia region. Those are not opening bids. They are a declaration of intent. Iran's state media put the breakdown squarely on Washington's "excessive demands."

Ghalibaf left no doubt about the atmosphere. "We have goodwill, but we do not trust," he told Iranian state media. The distrust is mutual: Tehran has not forgotten that President Donald Trump walked away from the 2015 nuclear deal, and Washington has watched Iran exploit diplomatic pauses for decades.

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[Fishrrman]

"ROBERT MAGINNIS: Why Islamabad talks were always doomed to fail..."

No need to read this article.

The reason is, because only fools will negotiate with muslims, thinking that they will benefit from such negotiations.

Muslims do not negotiate in good faith with non-muslims.

Indeed, the quran instructs muslims that non-muslims are inferior, and should deliberately be shunned and even mistreated.

While sometimes muslims will make agreements with non-muslims, it is done only where the muslims will benefit equally or greater.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Idiot reporting.

They did not fail.

The US was successful in executing our real goal of blockading Hormuz under the pretense that Iran did not negotiate.

Now we control Iran's source of income.

This is chess, not checkers.

[Smokin Joe]

Now watch where that pack of rotters flies back to.

Mark the targets...

The first ship that gets fired upon, take them out.