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The fallacy in the Presidents argument over those held captive is that there is always going to be a price to be paid for their release. Upping the ante in the nuclear negotiations might actually be less than a stand alone negotiation. The clear answer is that outside back channel negotiations that are in the process of developing a release, there is no real reason to spend time, resources and political capital to get such a small return on the investment.
The real reason is that the USA was not driving the process. The Euros were driving the process and will get Iran back as a customer
The media is far more Americentric than it should be on the story
He really had to go!
OBAMA: No. Look, I’m always hopeful that behavior may change for the sake of the Iranian people as well as people in the region. There are young people there who are not getting the opportunities they deserve because of conflict, because of sectarianism, because of poor governance, because of repression, because of terrorism, and I remain eternally hopeful that we can do something about that, and it should be part of U.S. foreign policy to do something about that.
But I’m not banking on that to say that this deal is the right thing to do. Again, it is incumbent on the critics of this deal to explain how an American president is in a worse position 12, 13, 14, 15 years from now, if at that point, Iran says we’re going to pull out of the MPT, kick out inspectors and go for a nuclear bomb. If that happens, that president will be in a better position than would happen if Iran, as a consequence of Congress rejecting this deal, decides that’s it. We’re done negotiating. We’re going after a bomb right now.
The choices would be tougher today than they would be for that president 15 years from now. And I have not yet heard logic that refutes that. All right?
I really have to go now. I think we’ve hit the big themes, but I — but I promise you I will — I will address this again, all right? I suspect this is not the last that we’ve heard of this debate.