Posted on 01/06/2020 11:13:04 PM PST by knighthawk
In 2015, as the debate over President Barack Obama’s proposed nuclear accord with the Iranian regime roiled the nation, mainstream reporters insisted there were only two choices: the deal or war.
It was understandable. Left-of-center media (that is, most outlets) so adored Obama that one of his aides called them his “echo chamber.” Following the White House line was the dutiful, echo-chamber thing to do — even if it meant ignoring rational alternatives to Obama’s appeasement of Tehran that didn’t entail waging war.
Today, liberals are regurgitating the same claims about the consequences of President Trump’s decision to take out Iranian arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani. Iran’s threats of retaliation and the statement that it is abandoning restrictions on its nuclear program are evidence, they say, that Team Trump is sleepwalking to war. The only option, in this line of thinking, is returning to the deal.
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Letting Udumbo negotiate with Iran was like handing a 16-year old boy the keys to a Ferrari.
"Trump chose to deal with reality as it is. Rather than starting a war, he merely recognized that the ayatollahs have already been waging one against Washington for years. The regime counted on Trump to follow the conventional lie that the only choices are abject appeasement or apocalyptic war."
"Trump understands that playing by the old rules previous administrations respected served the interests of a rogue regime."
Obama posed the choice as between appeasement and invasion. Wrong. The third option is rolling bomb and missile strikes against strategic and military installations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
And the same folks, who think we need to appease and pay up, think it’s OK to fight against Ransomeware...what a dichotomy
Today, liberals are regurgitating go along to get along nothing new here move along.
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