Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) yesterday afternoon gave an important speech on US-Iran relations at the University of Nebraska at Kearney's James E. Smith Conference on World Affairs.

Hagel suggested that we can't leave the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to turn even more ulcerous and not be resolved. He posits that diplomacy, UN mandates and engagement, regional deal-making, new regional security frameworks and credible economic incentives are in a tool kit that can...