Current Iran framework will make war more likely (Israel's defense minister's op-ed)

Washington Post ^ | April 8 at 2:18 PM | Moshe Ya'alon

[Dave346]

Moshe Ya’alon is Israel’s defense minister.

The framework concluded last week on Iran’s nuclear program was doomed to disagreement. Even the “fact sheets” issued by the United States, France and Iran — all parties to the talks — didn’t agree on the facts.

Israel has made clear its grave concerns about the framework’s fundamental elements and omissions. The vast nuclear infrastructure to be left in Iran will give it an unacceptably short breakout time to building a bomb. Iran’s long-range ballistic missile program — a threat to Israel as well as the rest of the Middle East, Europe and the United States — is untouched. The sanctions on Iran will be lifted (quickly, according to the Iranians; gradually, according to the United States), while restrictions imposed on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program will expire in about a decade, regardless of Iran’s campaign of murderous aggression in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere across the Middle East; its arming, funding, training and dispatching of terrorists around the world; and its threats and violent efforts to destroy Israel, the region’s only democracy.

To justify the risks inherent to the framework, its supporters have posited three main arguments: that the only alternative is war; that Iranian violations will be deterred or detected because of “unprecedented verification”; and that, in the event of violations, sanctions will be snapped back into place. These arguments have one important feature in common: They’re all wrong.

The claim that the only alternative to the framework is war is false. It both obscures the failure to attain better terms from Iran and stifles honest and open debate by suggesting that if you don’t agree, you must be a warmonger. It also feeds and reflects the calumny that Israel in particular is agitating for war.

[Politicalkiddo]

That’s the point, is it not?

[Diogenesis]

Treason, again -— enabled and condoned by the
EXEMPT Congress that was more concerned about
making $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ from Laws it passed for others,
.... than protecting the US Constitution
for Enemies, both foreign and domestic.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Every Man Should Have a Rifle

-Henry Lawson

SO I SIT and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb,
Seeing visions “over yonder” of the war I know must come.
In the corner—not a vision—but a sign for coming days,
Stand a box of ammunition and a rifle in green baize.
And in this, the living present, let the word go through the land,
Every tradesman, clerk and peasant should have these two things at hand.
No—no ranting song is needed, and no meeting, flag or fuss
In the future, still unheeded, shall the spirit come to us!
Without feathers, drum or riot, on the day that is to be,
We shall march down, very quiet, to our stations by the sea.
While the bitter parties stifle every voice that warns of war,
Every man should own a rifle and have cartridges in store!

[SaraJohnson]

Obama wants war. A big nuclear one. He’s demonic.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Obama wants war. A big nuclear one. He’s demonic.”

I won’t argue with that. He’s right in there with the apocalyptic Iranian deal.