by Jack
“One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” Woody Allen
Allen’s humorous quote sums up the Hobson’s Choice we now have with the deal Obama has presented us. Obama left us with two extreme options. In reality now we really have no choice but to accept it, because the sanctions that were just lifted on Iran by China, Russia, Europe and several Arab nations will not be repeated if this plan fails. Europe is too anxious to open trade with Iran, Russia is eagerly looking for military sales, and both Europe and China needs the Iranian oil. We’re screwed.
The GOP knows if they block the deal now, they will be seen as the curmudgeons and villains as we enter the presidential election period. If they do accept the plan as is, they know if Iran violates the agreement the US can’t unilaterally impose sanctions on Iran. To do that, it will require a multinational effort as it was before and this is now very, very unlikely. The GOP is boxed in and further, the president has already taken the preemptive move of introducing the deal before the UN security council for their approval. The opposition is in an impossible position to resist.
That brings us back to hoping Iran will abide by the agreement (for at least the next 10-15 years) and they get to keep our hostages too! So much for negotiating from a position of strength, as Obama claims.
But here comes the worst part. We seem to have forgotten about North Korea and it’s ties with Iran. In the past decade they have engaged in joint nuclear weapons research and there’s nothing in this agreement to prevent North Korea from continuing to be a proxy for Iran. We have no inspectors inside North Korea and this makes their participation with Iran’s nuclear program a matter of wishful thinking.
“If Iran violates the deal, all of these sanctions will snap back into place. So there’s a very clear incentive for Iran to follow through and there are very real consequences for a violation.” Barrack Obama. Obama knows this is not true. We won’t have the leverage for sanctions again once trade ties with other nations have been developed. If it were true why is Saudi Arabia livid with the plan? Why is Israel calling this the worst possible deal?
” I have no doubt that 10 or 15 years from now, the person who holds this office will be in a far stronger position with Iran further away from a weapon and with the inspections and transparency that allow us to monitor the Iranian program.” Not true, in a few years there’s every reason to expect Iran will have nuclear weapons. They are pushing full ahead to have ICBM’s, why would they do that without nuclear warheads? They wouldn’t be spending huge sums of money on a long range missile that was carrying TNT. It would make no sense.
“I am confident that this deal will meet the national security interest of the United States and our allies. So I will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal.” Absolutely true. Obama has done another end run around our checks and balances, and has effectively nullified the opposition from Congress.
“I have made clear to the Iranian people that we will always be open to engagement on the basis of mutual interests and mutual respect.” And exactly how is this going to come about? By Obama’s winning personality that will turn a rogue Islamic state in a friendly trading partner? They are fanatics, and a global exporter of terrorism. They are a regime that orchestrates “Death to America” rallies every other week. Iran is run by a death cult that would gladly sacrifice themselves if they thought it would herald the return of their Prophet and Islamic dominion over the world.
Obama’s speech sounded a lot like the peace in our time speech by Neville Chamberlain. Well, heck I can hardly wait until the day that we shall all sit around the campfire, singing kumbaya with the Ayatollah.
“The path of violence and rigid ideology, a foreign policy based on threats to attack your neighbors or eradicate Israel — that’s a dead end.” Rejoice America the man who brought you the ACA, the end of fighting in Iraq, smoothed over old racial wounds and secured our border has just done the biggest nuclear peace deal in US history and sealed the future fate of Israel.
We may well end up sitting around camp fires (those of us who are left) however I doubt there will be much singing, having come full circle from the nuclear age back to the stone age. And when our kids ask, what will we tell them?
Iran will go back to business as usual. The “snap back” is a fraud to sell this horrendous Obama deal to US citizens.
Dick Cheney warns against Iran nuke deal —
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/07/14/exclusive-dick-cheney-warns-against-iran-nuke-deal-on-hannity/
Iran mocks and scolds the Obama fool.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3163029/Iran-s-supreme-leader-mocks-America-letter-Obama-warning-countries-signed-nuke-deal-not-trustworthy.html
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu —
“Giving the preeminent terrorist state of our time access to nuclear technology that they will ultimately turn into an arsenal of nuclear weapons and hundreds of billions of dollars to finance their terror machine is bad for everyone.”
“I don’t think this is a partisan issue In Israel. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue in the United States.”
“Our national security is not a matter of dispute.”
“Not everyone has learned the lessons of history. Today, the world powers have fallen in a trap of smiles set by the tyrannical Iranian regime.”
“It’s like giving a crime organization that deals in drugs a 24-day notice before checking its drug lab.”
Get it while the getting is good —
Raul Castro calls on Obama to dismantle Cuba embargo
http://news.yahoo.com/raul-castro-calls-obama-dismantle-cuba-embargo-223801556.html;_ylt=AwrXgCPQ7KZVMDEALhXQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBya2cwZmh2BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwM1BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg–
Pie explain how one can remove all traces of Uranium particles in 24 days. Really? It’s like drugs? lol that is hilarious.
It is unlikely that could be done the footprint is too big a deal.
I have no solid opinion yet but find the rinse and repeat of talking points silly,
A while back it was sanctions do not work. The purpose of sanctions was to make Iran come to the table. Now there is a deal it is about sanctions?
Truth be told it would not matter if it was a good deal or not. Bibi and the Gop want an Iran war period.
BTW Iran greatly increased their centrifuges under GW’s watch.
GOP Wants war with Iran they make that clear.
Frankly my taxes are not being paid for these wars while many get rich off them.
Who has read the deal? Who here actually knows? Not what Fox says but what is in it?
Also GW Bush? He refused to enforce sanctions cause they were on oil companies, Get Real Folks
Dewey, “explain how one can remove all traces of Uranium particles in 24 days.”
Who says it’s necessary to remove all traces of Uranium particles? All they need remove is anything that would point to nuclear arms.
Saddam played cat and mouse with UN inspectors for years.
“BTW Iran greatly increased their centrifuges under GW’s watch.”
And that was with sanctions! Imagine what they will accomplish now with cash flowing into their tyrannical coffers and nations like Russia willing to sell them what they need to deliver a nuclear bomb or two.
“GOP Wants war with Iran they make that clear”
Bologna! The GOP just have clear heads when it comes to murderous, tyrannical regimes.
You on the left take the Chamberline route…epic fail every time it’s tried.
Please don’t claim you are not a lefty…you expose yourself in comments too often to be anything else.
“GW Bush? He refused to enforce sanctions cause they were on oil companies”
What are you taking about?
Dewey, please explain to me why you are such an idiot.
Just the fact that Iranians in the streets are celebrating while at the same time Obumble is launching an all-out attack on critics should tell even those with Obumblephones that the US is the loser here.
If it was such a good “deal,” then why the hard sell?
Iran is an oil rich nation with lots of sand and sun for solar power. So, why do they need nuclear power? They don’t. They want nuclear weapons to take out Israel, the US and all of Europe. Period.
Ted Cruz is going to try and stop Obama from circumventing Congress, as agreed upon, and going to the UN Security Council for the Iran deal approval. Yup, he’s up to his old snake in the grass deals again.
Cruz Threatens to Cut Off Authorization for State Dept. Funding After Nuke Deal:
“White House moving to circumvent Congress on deal.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-threatens-to-cut-off-state-dept-funding-after-nuke-deal/