Posted on 08/03/2015 12:39:26 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
President Barack Obama has in good faith negotiated an agreement with Iran that would end a broad range of economic sanctions on Iran, in return for Iran’s promise to scale back its efforts to build a nuclear bomb. I believe that Congress’s support of the agreement would be a very serious mistake.
I find persuasive the arguments of many analysts that the proposal fails because it lifts sanctions before Iran has over time proven that it is committed to abandoning its nuclear weapons program.
Perhaps even more importantly, I oppose the agreement because it does not require Iran to stop its funding of Hezbollah and other extremist hoodlums around the world.
But more fundamentally, I oppose the proposal because, while addressing strategic issues, the deal ignores a moral issue, among the most profound of our time.
Put simply: Iran sponsors terrorism. I am convinced I could prove that proposition in a court of law, and indeed some Americans have done so. Survivors of terrorist attacks have sued the Iranian government in American courts, and won significant judgments.
But the Iranian government has refused to pay those judgments, and the proposed agreement does nothing to challenge that intransigence. In fact, the agreement would release up to 150 billion dollars of frozen assets to Iran, without requiring that a dime go to paying off the survivors of Iran-sponsored terror.
I understand that sometimes strategic interests require us to negotiate with enemies; and I do not underestimate the imminence of Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb capability. And as a veteran of war, I favor peace, when peaceful means can be found to deter aggression.
But the world has within its grasp those peaceful means, in international sanctions, and those sanctions should be strengthened, not abandoned. . .
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Not a flaw, a feature.
Stopped here. I wish it could be so, but it is not so.
Stopped here. I wish it could be so, but it is not so.
This whole deal fits the definition of treason about a hundred times over. It’s just staggering how blatant it is, inconceivable - except its actually happening.
Obama carefully designed all the flaws, so he hasn’t forgotten his biggest accomplishment - a “final solution” to what he sees as a vexing problem. Letting murderers go free is merely a minor bonus to him. As for the rest of us, there are so many flaws in the Iran deal, ranging from massive to catastrophic and beyond, that it’s hard for anyone outside thee Obama Administration to keep track of them all.
The premise that he negotiated in good faith is wrong.
Argh!
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