Camp David, Dayton, Lausanne

April 8th, 2015 | http://www.lobelog.com/camp-david-dayton-lausanne/#more-28841 by Thomas W. Lippman
In the past four decades, the greatest achievements of American diplomacy were probably the Camp David Accords and the Dayton Agreement. Camp David led to the end of the perpetual state of war between Israel and Egypt. Dayton ended the carnage of the war in the Balkans.
Both were flawed deals, produced in many tense days of high-stakes, high-level negotiation in which none of the participants got everything he wanted and the United States did not achieve all its aims. Of course they didn’t—that is the nature of diplomacy and negotiation, a fact that seems to have eluded the loudest critics of the tentative Iran nuclear pact.http://www.lobelog.com/camp-david-dayton-lausanne/#more-28841