Good to Get Straightened Out

I have to admit that yesterday I was having problems understanding how the US "offer" to be "diplomatic" with the Iranians was really some kind of improvement on the situation, but even BBC News was telling me it was. But then, Charles Dodgson emerged from his hibernation (where the hell have you been, man????) to set me straight:

And yet, the news pages of the Times, on the very same day, report that approbation is not quite so complete:

...some participants in the drawn-out nuclear drama questioned whether this was an offer intended to fail, devised to show the extent of Iran's intransigence.

Ingrates.