article_snippet: This is a matter of figuring out, "How do we get through a real knotty policy difference that has great consequences for both countries and for the region?
article_snippet: But what We can't do is pretend that there's a possibility of something that's not there.
article_snippet: And We can't continue to premise We public diplomacy based on something that everybody knows is not going to happen, at least in the next several years.
article_snippet: And the conditions in the Middle East has changed to the point where any territory you withdraw from is immediately taken out by Iranian backed terrorists or by ISIS.'
article_snippet: But of course the conditions were such that they would be impossible to meet any time soon.'