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History Casts Doubt Upon Non-Aggression Pact With Iran
Townhall.com ^ | December 4, 2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/05/2013 5:14:31 AM PST by Kaslin

According to our recently proposed treaty with the Iranian government, Iran keeps much of its nuclear program while agreeing to slow its path to weapons-grade enrichment. The Iranians also get crippling economic sanctions lifted.

The agreement is not like détente-era arms reductions with the Soviets. After all, each superpower in the Cold War had enough nuclear missiles to reduce most of civilization to cinders. One mistake could have ended in Armageddon.

In this supposed win-win deal, America does not have to worry about another costly and unpopular preemptive military action to stop proliferation. Iran keeps its nuclear program. It makes lots of money and can apparently maintain its ongoing support for global Islamic terrorism.

Unfortunately, such pacts of mutual advantage involving dictatorships do not have a good historical pedigree.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: dictatorship; history; iraniannukeprogram; sanctions

1 posted on 12/05/2013 5:14:31 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
History Casts Doubt Upon Non-Aggression Pact With Iran

Apparently EVERYONE knows that with the exception of Neville Chamberlain Kerry and his supremely arrogant boss, der 0berFuhrer 0bama.

2 posted on 12/05/2013 5:24:45 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Kaslin.

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3 posted on 12/05/2013 4:11:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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