The nuclear treaty with Iran is now a done deal and a lot of people are ecstatic, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is happy with it, even a lot of people who haven’t read it yet.
Of course, Bibi Netanyahu is squealing like a stuck pig. For us this treaty is a gamble but not a great one because right now our involvement in the Middle East is shrinking. Could it create an arms race? Probably not, certainly not as swiftly as no treaty and Iran developing a bomb would.
Check Schumer who is certainly one of the key players in congress vote on the Treaty spoke this morning. Thank God for people who can think. He states straight out that he hasn’t read the bill yet but that he will do so this weekend and then he will consult with others involved, and thereby come to a decision on how he feels about it.
Contrast that to any Republican presidential candidate or almost any of their party leaders like McCain, McConnell, Graham, Boehner or the like, who just came out hating the treaty with no actual knowledge of what was in it, simply because it was Obama’s work and they are Republicans. It’s the basic difference between people with intelligence and those without.
The biggest argument against the treaty has simmered down to the concept that our allies in the Middle East are all against it. What allies? The only real ally we have may be Jordan.. Tbe Israeli Prime Minister came over here and addressed congress trying to subvert our President. Saudi Arabia supplied most of the terrorists that knocked down the World Trade Center, as well as the man who created al-Qaeda. The country is run by the fanatic Wahabbi sect, that is the basis for both al-Qaeda and ISIS. And now they are making nice with Russia. What the hell makes anyone think that Saudi Arabia or any other Sunni nation is a friend of ours?
Why he hell should we care what anyone in the Middle East thinks? The problem has always been that they don’t think, they just react to any trash that their religious leaders throw at them. That is also true of Iran but at least Iran has a youthful majority that is more modern and more educated than any other group in the area.
Morning Joe Scarborough went on a long diatribe about how Obama looked bad un negotiating this treaty and how he was making a mistake but he was followed by David Ignatius, who explained that this was a historic treaty, one that was well thought out, and that it should certainly become a good part of Obama’s legacy.
The Israelis coming out strongly against the deal, whine continually about Iran’s association with terror but when looked at closely, Iran’s association with terror, despite their sponsorship of Hezbollah, is no where near as virulent as all the defamers of Iran claim.
Pre 1979, Iran was the stable leader of the Middle East. Their leadership was terminated by our CIA and Britain’s MI6, interfering in their internal politics, mainly because they were dealing with Russia to sell their oil and we didn’t like it. We forced out Mohammad Mossedegh, one of the best leaders in the history of the Middle East and replaced him with our own puppet, The Shah, a disaster for the country, which they eventually overcame by throwing him out. Maybe if we can get on the same page with this and with their help in attacking ISIS, which they are freely giving, we can look forward to closer relations with them in the future.
Remember, Iran is Persian not Arab, a much more civilized race, and one that despite current religious leadership is much more in line with modern goals. 65% of the population is under 35 and they are much more modernized than their parents. It’s only a matter of time before we are able to subvert the classical culture there and cultivate the young people and their desires to be westernized.
A baby GOP Senator, named Tom Cotton, who hasn’t read the treaty and knows as much about it as my cat, opens his big mouth once again and spews out reams of bullshit. As soon as this clown graduates high school, he could become dangerous He babbles about Iran having the blood of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan on their heads. Of course this child is too young to remember that if it weren’t for a lying President from his party, we wouldn’t have had our kids in Iraq or Afghanistan at all.
Almost everyone on the Right who spoke on this made some statement that was either deliberately untrue or just didn’t have their facts together enough to get their quotes right. Quite possibly, if any of them had read the treaty before they spoke, they would have had much better luck with their comments, but then that’s just being a Republican.
So living in the real world means that one has to understand that there is a risk that the Iranians will cheat. That’s true of any deal but the question must be asked, would we be better off without this treaty? Would we be better off by following the advice of the Tom Cottons and the John Boehner’s and just bomb the shit out of Iran? We can do that. We’ve already done it all over the Middle East and North Africa. It hasn’t worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya or anywhere else, so what makes these closed minded idiots think it will work in Iran?
Lindsay Graham has gotten it wrong once again., proving that he couldn’t negotiate his way out of his outhouse. Look, we don’t negotiate arms deals with our friends. We don’t have to. We negotiate them with our enemies. Graham is obviously looking for another war. He backed Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we hadn’t made this deal, Iran could just go ahead and build their bomb. Graham flat out lies about the result of this deal. Could it be that Graham is too dumb to understand it? He says that stopping Iran from getting a bomb will start an arms race. It will do exactly the opposite. If Iran gets a bomb, everyone else in this region, just like the children that they are, will want one, and some of them have more than enough money to buy one from Pakistan.
Graham calls Iran our greatest enemy, which just means that he isn’t paying attention. What about Saudi Arabia, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Russia, North Korea, or even China? Where has he been all his life?
one of the nay-saying Right-wingers want this deal because they really don’t want Barak Obama to have been the president when it happened. That’s the bottom line and if you don’t see t, you are too blind to be part of the discussion. In fact all the people who are condemning the treaty without having read it, people like Lindsay Graham, were the ones who stood in back of Dick Cheney and George Bush when they attacked Iraq and Afghanistan because a bunch of Saudi’s blew up the World Trade Center. Yeah, Arabs look like Persians to Graham but who on the Right cares. Iran didn’t attack us. It seems, all dark people look alike to the GOP.
Graham doesn’t like the negotiators’ that we have in the game. Of course, Graham has proven himself such a great negotiator that we have no GOP health plan, no immigration program, no education roadmap, no plan to clean the environment. The president has ventured into all of these areas but Graham and the GOP have stymied him at every turn. What it really comes down to is no successful black president for the GOP. What did Graham do to advance any of these, good for the country, goals? He crossed his legs, squeezed his butt and is no.
Bob Corker jumps in and speaks to the idea that he is afraid of losing the sanctions. Maybe the sanctions brought Iran to the table, but the sanctions, which hurt Iran ‘s economy, have done nothing to stop them from developing a bomb and the continuation of them bodes no threat to keep them from finishing a bomb. The only real threat to them making a bomb is the fact tat we have a lot of bombs and could decimate Iran very easily. Besides, there is no guarantee that we will be able to keep the sanctions in place if talks had broken down. Neither Russia nor China was in any big hurry to continue them at the cost of having Iran as a market.
The bottom line is that there is a treaty. Now it behooves Obama to convince enough people in congress that it is really a good deal. This won’t be easy, Congress is, as can be seen by any intelligent human being, infested by some of the least intelligent beings on the planet, all interested first and foremost in getting re-elected and least interested in governing the country. This makes any legislation that effects their electability purely a political, rather than a moral or governing decision. Morning Joe, with whom I started this article, finally says, read the treaty before you open your mouth. That’s good advice.
If there is one aspect of the Treaty process that stands out, it is that Obama understands the basic principle, that it is better to negotiate with your enemies than to invade them. This is something that always escaped Bush & Cheney. The Bush foreign policy was based on invasion with no plan for what happened afterward.. For that reason alone, Obama’s foreign policy has far exceeded that of his predecessor, this despite the rantings of every Republican who has ever heard that there is something called foreign Policy.
What seems to have escaped all the talking heads is that there are those on the Right in Iran, just as there are those on the Right in this country that are against the Treaty. This, in itself, illuminates the strength of the treaty. A good deal, as sworn t by anyone who has ever closed a successful deal, is one in which both sides gain something and both sides lose something. Everybody wants to get everything but when that happens, the deal usually falls apart or lends itself to bring broken at such time as the loser in the deal has had enough. This looks like a good deal.