The Left's diplomatic decorum will not stop Iran (deal will pay Iran $100 billion!)

According to all the signs, the United States is leading the international community toward a bad nuclear agreement with Iran. The majority of the Israeli public, as well as the heads of all political parties, agree on that. The deal will enable Iran to continue pursuing nuclear weapons and fund terrorist groups operating worldwide, all while free of the sanctions that have been crippling its economy for years. According to reports in the U.S., that alone amounts to a $100 billion bonus, which will go directly to the insane regime's pockets.

The solution offered by Labor leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnuah leader Tzipi Livni, and their ilk, is to sit idly by and trust Obama to get it right. In his defense, Herzog said this week that he could express his opinions on the matter from Israel and that a trip to Washington was unnecessary to make this specific point. True to his word, Herzog was interviewed by a foreign news network and expressed his opinions in English, but instead of attacking the impending deal, he chose to attack Netanyahu for traveling to Washington and addressing Congress. To each his own priorities.

Those who are prompted by the rules of diplomatic decorum to take the "sit idly by" approach on Iran, actually display remarkable weakness, which it turns raises serious questions about their judgment, about their ability to correctly read and navigate the American and global political maps, and about their ability to withstand pressure -- something every leader, and especially an Israeli leader, must be able to do. One must ask: If they are so nervous over a diplomatic maneuver, how would they handle a military one?

The Insane Thing about it is, it's been done before, and with identical results.

The purpose of Bill Clinton's deal with NoKorea was to keep the Norks from announcing they had nukes before his term of office was ended. That way, in typical Clintonesque fashion, he could [emptily] claim that the Menta Li Il clan "hadn't acquired nukes on my watch."

Complete crap of course.

What did we pay so that our serial sexual assaulter President could make his empty claims? We'll never know, of course, because the deal we made with the Norks was so bad that they demanded money from us and then turned around and humiliated us by saying they were too good to take a cash payment from the US. So most of it was given to them in barter -- like billions in fuel oil. Hard currency was actually laundered through the EU. Our last payment through the EU was $8 billion. Shortly after that was paid the Norks announced they had The Bomb. [Oh, and we needed to give them some more money, so they might think about coming back to the negotiating table.]

The current deal is going to have exactly the same outcome.

What else to watch out for: the NoKorea deal contained classified inspection provisions, which actually kept Bush from countering some of John Kerry's nonsensical claims during their foreign policy Presidential debate. [Kerry had been briefed on those details as a Presidential candidate, and violated the law. Nothing new for him.]

If you watch that debate, you will see Bush begin to refute Kerry's lies about a technical part of the deal, then trail off into mumbling something about "not covering Plutonium," when he realizes that the only way to squash Kerry's argument is by revealing secret parts of the original deal.

Bottom line: not only will this be a bad deal -- an insanely bad deal -- but we'll never even know how insanely bad it is.

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