This is really going to upset such foreign policy "geniuses" as Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen and Joe the Plumber — so it sounds good:

The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions.

The Bush approach of waving his finger, invading Iran’s neighbors and occupying them incompetently while Israel or America alternatively threatened to turn Tehran into glass has worked about as well as any other Bush policy. So one can only imagine the tweets that will emerge from the pork sausage-fingers of Newt Gingrich about negotiating with countries that he thinks would look so good as rubble — in the name of peace, of course.