Diplomacy Preferred Over Escalation: The author argues that private, high-level talks between Trump and Iranian leadership (without advisers, offering recognition) would be preferable to continued military action, echoing Churchill’s “Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War.”

Long Record of UN Charter Violations: Both Western powers (U.S., Europe) and others (Russia, China, Soviet Union) have repeatedly used force unilaterally without Security Council authorization, creating a cycle of double standards that undermines the international rules-based system.

Charter Still Valuable When Respected: Despite abuses, cooperation under the UN framework has contributed to a long-term decline in major wars; a genuine U.S.-Iran agreement would strengthen diplomacy and the principles of the Charter rather than further eroding them.

Donald Trump will find out the hard way in Iran that, as Winston Churchill famously observed, “Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War.” If war can be avoided through a warm, lengthy, private conversation—without advisers, accompanied by generous gestures and promises of international recognition when his opponent, Mojtaba Khamenei, is invited to the White House—then Trump would have shown genuine statesmanship.

But we know he will not do that. American public opinion would support such an initiative. Congress would likely support it. The Pope would praise it. The United Nations would probably pass a........

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