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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Bob hope has been dead ten years.
Scowcroft is 90 years old. What I want these “pro-Iran” supporters to do is tell me exactly how this deal is going to help. I have seen NOTHING that tells me Iran will be held accountable for anything.
what leverage?
Inaccurate analogies.
The China thing was just an adventure for Kissinger.
Reagan was all about "trust but verify."
The Iran deal is "trust, and trust them to verify."
Madness.
Scowcroft is a longtime hater of Israel.
My guess: Scowcroft is on the take from the muslims.
They have lots of money to spread around.
DISGUSTING!! I hope all these EVIL people and their families, supporting it are the first ones to be NUKED!!
It seems to me that the “deal” itself is a formal abdication by the U.S., and, a give-a-way of any possible leverage on our part. Israel is being isolated. It is incomprehensible to me how far from truth our nation has gone.
Bingo, he’s in the pocket of the Gulf Muzzies, and he’s a Jew-hater.
there seems to be no shortage of outright traitors to America these days
(remembering that Iran plans to use all those Obama-enabled-and-funded ICBM’s to drop nuclear bombs on The Great Satan as soon as it can)
Yes ... Bob Hope was a patriot ... and yes, he’s been gone for ten years ... and yes, Obama-Reid-McConnell will try to float the lie that even Bob Hope would vote for the “traitorous” Iran deal ...
Oil and $$$$
His Arrogance is really sucking now .... digging up the dead or near dead to pimp his Iranian sellout!!!!
Scowcroft is the guy who raised a glass to the Chinese leadership even as the Tiananmen massacre was happening. The man is unprincipled as far as I’m concerned, and his endorsement is just one more indication for me that this Iran deal is a disaster for smart foreign policy.
This guy is as anti-America and anti-Israel as they come...
Snowcroft has been trying to destroy the United States since he worked for daddy Bush...
I don’t think Scowcroft understands that Obama is Muslim and a traitor who wants us nuked on high
Scowcroft is one of the reasons the US is in the current position of many peoples wishes ,ie. that the US become subservient to Islamic laws and their justice. This kind of undercutting US sovereignty has been going on for years under our noses by these elites. Perhaps Trump can deal with these scumbags. I have to be careful here in as much I really don’t know what kind of relationship Trump has with scumbags like Scowcroft. As a WWII overseas vet with a brother killed on Okinawa I am leery of any of these desk jockeys who reside in D.C.
This should be interesting ping.
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