Posted on 08/12/2016 3:29:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The latest victim in the presidential race’s assault on truth — to say nothing of nuance — came last week in the flurry of accusations surrounding the United States’ payment of $400 million to Iran. Donald Trump called it ransom, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) accused the United States of acting like a “drug cartel.”
In reality, the payment represented continued adherence to a masterful feat of American diplomacy and to the peaceful resolution of disputes under international law. Ronald Reagan understood how important it is for us to keep our promises — which is why, as president, he upheld the agreement negotiated by the Carter administration that led to the recent payment.
The payment was not a ransom but rather part of a settlement agreement that the United States reached with Iran for claims arising out of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which toppled the pro-American shah and brought the current Islamist government to power. Before the revolution, the United States had signed hundreds of contracts with Iran, then an ally, to sell it military equipment. When the hostile Islamist regime took power, the military sales relationship collapsed. That left hundreds of millions of dollars of outstanding claims between the two countries and their citizens: claims both by U.S. companies for breached contracts and expropriated properties, and Iranian demands for the delivery or return of equipment that Iran had already paid for but not received — not to mention the issue of the 52 Americans that Iran then held hostage.
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Major barf alert.
Saying “What garbage!” insults garbage.
Washington post not going to ruin my night I’m going to a Godfather drive and talk to everybody later
FYI this pabulum was written by some sick truck Stanford Lawyer and a STUDENT!
They do think we are stupid.
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Everyone knows it is quite normal to make payments with pallets of cash
This really does need a barf alert
Ransom is ransom. Even if you call it a "settlement". It's still ransom.
Must have been an exercise in “Write the most perverse thing possible.”
It’s a “I can’t believe it’s not a ransom!” ransom.
Today’s Gobbels Award winner ! With a good dose of LSD tossed in, ha! What a bald- faced liar!! Definitely at the Hilliary class level!)
More like treason.
Sorry, the WP’s logic is so off the wall that I couldn’t get past the first few sentences. Masterful? What a laugh!
The WaPo regulars ale lapping it up in the comment section.
It’s every Republican politician that ever lived at fault for Obama doing what he did.
Comparative law? Like comparing the U.S Constitution to Sharia law?
He is leading a "practicum" at Stanford on the problem of designing a constitution for the post Qaddafi Libya in support of "the Public Interest Law and Policy Group (PILPG), a pro bono international law firm, which is advising civil society groups in Libya."
Rainbows and unicorns
It was ransom you stupid bloody fools, and the whole world knows it.
This is like Bush Sr.’s giving “grain credits” to Saddam.
This money will be used to attack Israel- and Washington likes that,I guess.
Pretty sad if you ask me. Gen 12:3
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