Obama and his team are celebrating as if they were FBI agents who successfully conducted a cash for hostages exchange while the criminals went free.
The "diplomacy" that they're celebrating is one in which Iran gets what it wants and occasionally frees hostages. But since Iran can take more hostages at any time, and since it now has more motivation than ever to do so, there's nothing to celebrate.
With animals, there's sometimes a question of who is training whom. Is the owner training the dog to do tricks in exchange for treats. Or is the dog training the owner to give treats in exchange for not making a mess on the floor.
This is the essential question in power relationships.
What Obama has going on with Iran isn't mutual. It's a relationship in which Iran's "moderates" show that Western governments can be trained to give them what they want or they'll make a mess on the floor by taking hostages or blatantly violating nuclear protocols.
Part of this training program involves deliberate messes so that the number of treats and the owner's anxiety is redoubled.
Iran creates a crisis. Obama rushes treats and then claims it's a diplomatic success.
Kerry and co. claim that Iran is being trained to negotiate problems diplomatically. But Iran knows how to do that already. As the nuke negotiations showed, it's much better at it than Obama and Kerry are. Iran knows how to use diplomacy, but its intentions are not diplomatic. So instead it's using diplomacy to train Obama and his European allies to dispense more treats even as it continues to pursue a nuclear weapons program.
And the most pathetic part of this is that Obama and the Europeans have been trained to treat every payout like a victory.