Pakistan, April 7 -- History will remember February 28, 2026 not only as the day the bombs fell on Iran, but as the day diplomacy was finally, deliberately set aside. Less than 48 hours before U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva for a third round of nuclear talks. Talks were not stalled. They were ongoing. Yet the war began anyway. The Iran war was not the product of diplomatic exhaustion, it was the product of diplomatic negligence, impatience, and a fundamental preference for military force over patient statecraft. At every turn, a negotiated solution was available. At every turn, the Trump administration turned away from it...