The Iran 'Agreement' Charade - Thomas Sowell - Page full:
"By abandoning virtually all its demands for serious restrictions on Iran's nuclear bomb program, the Obama administration has apparently achieved the semblance of a preliminary introduction to the beginning of a tentative framework for a possible hope of an eventual agreement with Iran.
But even this hazy "achievement" may vanish like a mirage.
It takes two to agree -- and Iran has already publicly disputed and even mocked what President Obama says is the nature of that framework.
Had Iran wholeheartedly agreed with everything the Obama administration said, that agreement would still have been worthless, since Iran has already blocked international inspectors from its nuclear facilities at unpredictable times.
The appearance of international control is more dangerous than a frank admission that we don't really know what they are doing.
Why then all these negotiations?
Because these charades protect Barack Obama politically, no matter how much danger they create for America and the world.
The latest public opinion polls show Obama's approval rating rising.
In political terms -- the only terms that matter to him -- his foreign policy has been a success.
If you look back through history, you will be hard pressed to find a leader of any democratic nation so universally popular -- hailed enthusiastically by opposition parties as well as his own -- as was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he returned from Munich in 1938, waving an agreement with Hitler's signature on it, and proclaiming "Peace for our time.""
...Back in 1938, Winston Churchill was one of the very few critics who tried to warn Chamberlain and the British public.
Churchill said:
"The idea that safety can be purchased by throwing a small State to the wolves is a fatal delusion."
After the ruinous agreement was made with Hitler, he said:
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
Chamberlain's "Peace for our time" lasted just under a year.
Comparing Obama to Chamberlain is unfair -- to Chamberlain.
There is no question that the British prime minister loved his country and pursued its best interests as he saw it.
He was not a "citizen of the world," or worse.
Chamberlain was building up his country's military forces, not tearing them down, as Barack Obama has been doing with American military forces...
"The author eventually suggests that Muslims do not do “anything that contributes positively to the American way of life.”
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The saliency of that observation lies in the fact that there is virtually nothing in the substance of the deal for the War Party to attack.
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"Crowder noted that the media were “deliberately trying to set the narrative of mean, hateful Christians vs. poor, innocent gay people who are having their rights completely trampled.” Meanwhile, he said, gay people were being killed in “virtually every Muslim country” around the world.
"President Barack Obama dismissed any expectation that Iran should recognize the nation of Israel as part of the nuclear agreement reached last week.
"If Hillary Clinton was a low-level, unconnected government employee, she would have been been behind bars by now. The news keeps getting worse about the extent she abused the law to hide official government emails: using her own email server, secretly emailing about Benghazi and then wiping the server clean. Now Congress is considering criminal charges against her."
"The speech, which was about the decline of America through permissiveness and liberalism, sent shockwaves through America when it was first given.
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"On Friday, Netanyahu said that any final agreement over Iran’s nuclear program must include Iranian recognition of Israel’s right to exist.
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