Watched Mike McCaul, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, attack our position on the negotiations with Iran. Why is it that this guy can’t make any kind of statement without lying or setting up a false premise. One of his principle problems is that he keeps quoting Jewish sources in New York, which we all know have a completely different agenda in the talks than does the United States. We have always been on the side of Israel and if they just sit back, occupy a little more of the West Bank and let is take care of this the whole world, except for the Palestinians, will be a lot better off.
We all know that Israel; considering that they are surrounded by enemies, is always in a desperate position but that doesn’t mean that we should take their Right wing politics to our bosom. They have been very successful in beating back the Arab plague. If they wish to continue on their own we should let them but if they want our help and our money then they must listen to what we have to say. That’s just how it works.
McCaul is so busy politicking that he doesn’t care what he says. He seems like a nice enough young man if you want someone to coach you’re kid’s Little League team but he is way over his head here. He doesn’t seem to realize that the time to attack a treaty is when it is written and the language is clear, not while it is being negotiated. He takes cheap shots at Kerry and the terms he is working with, before they are agreed on by anyone.
It’s obvious that he would have loved to have been our negotiator in chief on this one, but it’s equally clear that we need a full grown man for that job and McCaul is still in the embryo stage.
If it seems like I am personally attacking Mr. McCaul, you’re right, but I’m only doing it because this whole process is too important and too delicate to have some clown with a big microphone and a small brain taking shots at it in its most critical phase, just because he’s from the opposition party.
He takes too much time praising Netanyahu, who is, for some inconceivable reason the biggest impediment to the treaty getting done.
The Iranians are using one of the most obvious traditional negotiating postures imaginable. The negotiators sit in conference with Kerry and our people and come to some agreements while the Ayatollah makes speeches to the Iranian people telling them that they aren’t going to do any of the stuff already agreed on. It’s a classic ploy and the fact that McCaul doesn’t recognize it, only supports the view that he is too inexperienced and naïve to be listened to at all.
The bottom line is, we can drag these negotiations out until we break the Iranian economy, and they know that. There is no reason for us to hurry this process. Iran has stopped all nuclear activity because they fear that if they get too close to a weapon either Israel or the U.S. will initiate an attack. Both nations have already displayed their inclination to do something that hair brained. All Iran has to do is look next door to Iraq to see the unstable manner in which America can act. They don’t want to end up like Iraq. Who does?
Iran is doing what they should be doing, trying to get the best deal out of a situation that they created and are now stuck with. They don’t want the bomb any more then we want them to have one, but they rattled too many swords and now they are stuck with the result. Sword rattling is fun until someone calls you on it. That’s what has happened now in Iran.
McCaul babbles that Iran will soon have an IBCM that can reach North America. And what would happen if they used it? It would give our hawks the excuse to turn Iran into the Empty Quarter, or better yet a desert of glass. Iraq didn’t even attack us and we destroyed their country, what would we do to a country that actually tried to bomb us? Iran has a pretty good idea and they don’t want to find out for sure.
Maybe if McCaul stopped trying to negotiate this treaty in absentia and did something about the ISIS Internet communications with potential terrorists around the world he would find a way to better spend his time. He certainly couldn’t find a worse one than he is doing now.
But McCaul isn’t alone in his political attacks on the treaty. There is a nexus of Right Wing fanatic presidential candidates that have bordered on insanity in their attacks on this treaty, the TPP and almost anything else that the administration plans. They are led by Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump and Rick Perry, all vying for the, “nutty as a fruitcake” award.
It’s unfortunate that this country can’t go about its business in a professional manner, that everything that we do must be muddied by jackasses like the above who are always looking to turn every issue, no matter how important to the country, into a political advantage.
This treaty is too important to those in the Middle East and many around the rest of the world, to have it scuttled by American politicians who don’t understand the process and think they should be able to bring their ignorance to the trading table. Everyone should just shut up until they see what Kerry has wrought; and then, in the discussion period after the treaty language is settled and we all know what’s on paper, all the morons can have their say.