Posted on 12/07/2013 2:14:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama said Saturday that the chances of a permanent nuclear deal with Iran are at best no more than even odds, but that diplomacy still must be pursued.
“I wouldn't say that it is more than 50-50 but we have to try,” Obama said at a Brookings Institution event.
While some in Congress are trying to move tougher unilateral sanctions now, Obama urged restraint. He said that if Iran fails to meet its commitments under the temporary deal, the U.S. will be in a stronger position to seek more effective international sanctions after six months.
The president explained at length his rational for forging a temporary deal with Iran last month that lifts some sanctions in return for Iran taking specific steps to reduce its ability to make a nuclear weapon.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the deal a “historic mistake" and Obama acknowledged that in private he and the Israeli leader have "significant tactical disagreements" on occasion.
“What we do have to test is the possibility that we can resolve this diplomatically,” Obama said, adding that if diplomacy fails, military air strikes remain on the table as an option to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Obama said that he assumes Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani is not trustworthy and that is why verification is built into the temporary deal. He said that it would be wrong to ignore evidence that the Iranian people want to engage more constructively with the West than has been the case.
“Wherever we see the impulses of a people to move away from conflict, violence...we should be ready and prepared to engage them...understanding it is not what you say, it is what you do,” he said.
The president said Israel and Iran skeptics need to be realistic in their expectation and compared a complete surrender by Iran to a purely theoretically idea, like Congress passing all of Obama's proposals.
“There are a lot of things I can envision that would be wonderful,” Obama joked.
He said that even the most moderate Iranian politicians would be politically unable “to say we will cave and do exactly what the U.S. and Israel want,” and instead must be given a “dignified resolution to this issue” that allows them to save face.
Iran has claimed the deal already agreed to preserve its “right to enrich” uranium for peaceful means, but the president said that if negotiations fail, no such right has been established so far.
Everything this president touches gets worse, much worse.
LOL. 50-50. Then why the heck did he jump in front of cameras, why did Kerry get all touchy feely with his fellow diplomats etc. Seems Obama declared victory a bit too soon.
100% muslim treason, 100% muslim victory.
Peace in someone else’s time.
Obama: 100% chance I effectively gave nuclear weapons to Iran.
Obama acts like he's the first on the scene to attempt an answer for Iran. We've already been trying for decades...since Carter.
It's past time to act with force in order to free the world from tyranny.
My guess is that a lot of Dems running in '14 are getting a lot of anger from Jewish/Jewish sympathizers back home.
FMCDH(BITS)
translation
what Obama really is saying
is not “diplomacy must be pursued”
he, keeping to his ideology
is actually saying, is
“there is ONLY diplomacy that we can pursue”
Obama has been surrendering any U.S. advatage without
obtaining anything meaningful, or as in the case of
Iraq, without obtaining ANYTHING, in EVERY foreign
policy endeavor of his entire administration.
Putin “looked in his eyes” and read correctly, “now there’s a man I need not worry about”.
He said that if Iran fails to meet its commitments under the temporary deal, the U.S. will be in a stronger position to seek more effective international sanctions after six months.His lips are moving. Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.
The “smartest” people in the world never talk in specifics but always hedge their words and speak in arcane generalities which often make no sense. Maybe if they knew enough of the truth to ever speak it, the “brains” of their base would explode from the overload of truth. Might make an ugly mess, but I’ll volunteer to help mop up.
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