When Republicans accuse President Obama of being Jimmy Carter’s second term, they’re not kidding: “President Obama isn’t ruling out the possibility the U.S. could one day reopen an embassy in Iran.”

What, do the youth in Tehran need some calisthenics? Does Ben Affleck need material for a sequel to Argo?

The past years have seen attacks on U.S. diplomats and their facilities in Benghazi, Libya; Cairo, Egypt; Sanaa, Yemen; Tunis, Tunisia; Ankara, Turkey; Herat, Afghanistan, and Peshawar in Pakistan.

Back in 2011, angry “protesters” stormed the British embassy in Tehran as well.

What guarantee would the United States have that the same regime that took its diplomats hostage for more than a year wouldn’t do the exact same thing again?