DIPLOMATS call it President Obama's first major interna tional test, while pundits see it as a diplomatic version of the gunfight at the OK Corral.
"It," of course, is tomorrow's meeting in Geneva between Iran and the 5+1 group -- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.
Yet the meeting will likely be far less dramatic than the hype.
To start with, it's not quite clear what the meeting is about.
Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, insists he's going to Geneva to talk about a range of issues: eliminating world poverty, saving the environment, shaping a better future for mankind. (Apparently, there wasn't room on the agenda for saving the whales.)
European Union foreign-policy "czar" Javier Solana, meanwhile, sees the encounter as the latest in a series of "exchanges with Iran" that started 30 years ago.
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