For Iran's leader, whose country suffered nearly a million deaths at the hands of the enemy, with countless more wounded, the bitterness can only be imagined, but it must have seemed better than continuing to fight. **w President Barack Obama and the United States may have to drink their own cup of poison, and decide whether to settle with Iran on the nuclear issue and sanctions because it is better than watching the Middle East continuing to descend into chaos. SERIOUSLY OVERSTRETCHED Put bluntly, the United States is battling on too many fronts and **t winning on any of them at the moment. Syria has been lost to Islamist radicals and the government of Bashar Assad.