“There, there, Reuel, back to sleep, it’s all just a bad dream”

The Washington Post reprints what it says is a portion of the email exchange among three of the experts working with the ISG. The three include two conservatives — Cliff May and Reuel Marc Gerecht — who were holding out against the idea that the U.S. should reach out to Iran and Syria, and James Dobbins who was trying to persuade them to change their minds. If Dobbins had good answers to the concerns of May and Gerecht, they do not appear in these excerpts.