Posted on 08/23/2015 4:59:00 PM PDT by Steelfish
Aug 23 Former National Security Adviser Scowcroft Endorses Iran Deal
GORDON LUBOLD
Brent Scowcroft, the former national security adviser for two Republican presidents and considered a Washington sage, said he supports the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran and pressed Congress to support it.
Mr. Scowcroft, who worked for Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post’s Sunday edition in which he urged lawmakers not to confuse opposition to the agreement with support for Israel. He also likened the deal to agreements Presidents Richard Nixon made with China and Ronald Reagan made with the Soviet Union.
“If the United States could have handed Iran a ‘take it or leave it’ agreement, the terms doubtless would have been more onerous on Iran,” Mr. Scowcroft wrote. “But negotiated agreements, the only ones that get signed in times of peace, are compromises by definition. It is what President Reagan did with the Soviet Union on arms control; it is what President Nixon did with China.”
Mr. Scowcroft, a retired Air Force three-star general, said members of Congress, who will begin debating the issue in September, should recognize the military capability Israel possesses if Tehran doesn’t act according to the agreement and is forced to respond to defend itself. He said should Congress reject the deal, it would be an “abdication of the United States’ unique role and responsibility” and the U.S. would lose leverage over Iran’s nuclear activities.
“The seeming effort to make the [Iran nuclear deal] the ultimate test of Congress’s commitment to Israel is probably unprecedented in the annals of relations between two vibrant democracies,” Mr. Scowcroft wrote. “Let us be clear: There is no credible alternative were Congress to prevent U.S. participation in the nuclear deal. If we walk away, we walk away alone.”
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He was never impressive when he did have a position and now he is over-the-hill, trying to have one more shot at relevancy.
OMG!! Does he have DEMENTIA or is just SENILE or wants a HUGE PAYOFF from the IRANIANS???? It’s one or more of the above!!!
He was such and Arabist it was embossing. No surprise - arabists hate Israel more than they hate Persians.
why does it appear that we’re re-living the last days of the Reinmar Republic ?
How much did this cost Obama/Soros???
And they have pictures of him doing.... What?
Or he is broke and needs the money?
Or he is demented and wants another shot at importance?
What?
Next headline is that some putz rapper supports the deal. Oh wait, they already did that.
Check must have cleared.
will Obama next trot-out Bob Dole and Bob Hope to endorse the Iran Surrender Deal ?
Dementia?
Bob Hope was a PATRIOT!!!
Well, the Ca$h from Bammy’$ $tash needs to be spread around.
THIS is worse......we were founded as a BEACON of FREEDOM and RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE!!
Age related senility?
Oh goody another RINO hack chimes in
Man’s gotta make a living. It is hard when you have been out of the limelight for years and people have forgotten all about you. You just have to take any gig that comes by.
Do you mean the Weimar Republic?
By whom?
Probably just within his own mind.
follow the money. who does he work for now?
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