Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

