Posted on 02/23/2015 5:24:19 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Can President Obama sell an Iran deal at home?
If his negotiators strike an agreement next month, we already know that it will be far from ideal: Rather than eradicating Iran’s nuclear-weapons potential, as once was hoped, a pact would seek to control Iran’s activities for some limited number of years.
Such a deal might be defensible on the grounds that it is better than any alternative, given that most experts believe a military “solution” would be at best temporary and possibly counterproductive.
But making that kind of lesser-evil defense would be challenging in any circumstances. Three conditions will make it particularly hard for Obama to persuade Congress and the nation to accept his assurances in this case: the suspicious, poisonous partisanship of the moment here, with Israeli politics mixed in; worries that he wants a deal too much; and the record of his past assurances.
The partisanship needs no explanation, but the record of foreign-policy assurances is worth recalling:.....
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...Whatever its contours, Obama would be making a big mistake to try to implement such a momentous pact, as administration officials have suggested he might, without congressional buy-in. But it’s not surprising that he would be tempted to try.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Nobody (who loves America) trusts Obama.
The deal won’t pass the Senate. And here’s the secondary news....once the Cuba treaty is done and signed...I’m guessing that it won’t pass the senate either. What’s left for the remaining months of the administration then? Some new trees planted in the White House gardens?
“A credibility gap [for Obama on Iran negotiations]”
A credibility gap on everything else as well.
Americans have seen that Obama is a liar.
No one trusts him.
Period.
I hope that we find in the end that Obama’s “phone and pen” serve only to undermine his Presidency. If we can have a successful outcome on court challenges to his over reach and have these international deals of his fail in the Senate, who is going to want to work further with him?
I suspect Iran trusts him to bumble the negotiations long enough for Iran to become a nuclear power.
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