When the Iranian leader looks and acts and speak more intelligently than our President, we have a problem.
Tweety thinks of the Iran nuclear deal in simplistic, narrow, short-sighted terms; it's over his head. Rather than see what is wrong, he needs to see what is right with the deal!
"Trump Has No Good Reason to Scrap the Iran Deal"
The reasons his administration has put forth are dishonest and will make us less secure.
By Fred Kaplan, 22 SEp 2017
"President Trump seems determined to wiggle out of the Iran nuclear deal, but all the rationales that he and his top aides have put forth to justify the move are specious and self-destructive."
Tweety insists on stupidity as his main weapon against the Iran deal.
"He’s (Tweety has) filed the charge many times: Iran got billions of dollars, and we got nothing. He persists in ignoring that the billions Iran received were in fact their own assets, which had been frozen as punishment for their illegal nuclear program; with that program dismantled, the freeze is lifted."
So Tweety's liars take their orders and march out with foolish propaganda. Here's Tillerson's foolishness.
"Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, also at the U.N., came up with another reason for scotching the deal. Yes, he conceded, Iran “is in technical compliance with the agreement,” but—as the New York Times paraphrased his words—it is “violating the larger aspirations of the deal by engaging in destabilizing activities not directly covered by it,” such as funding terrorists and developing ballistic missiles.
This is shamefully dishonest. The Iran nuclear deal was a carefully worded deal; it is what it says it is, and nothing more."
Leave the Iran deal as is.
"President Obama said repeatedly that he hoped the deal would strengthen the moderate factions in Tehran, paving the way to political reform and more harmonious relations with the West. But he stressed that the deal was in our interests even if wider relations didn’t improve—in fact, if relations remained dismal, the deal would be more vital."
Why isn't it reasonable to hope an Iran, which was once moderate and stable, can moderate again, in time? Why is American thinking always just 90 days into the future, the next business quarter?
"Iran’s ballistic missile program is another worry that makes the nuclear deal more, not less, attractive. This was a contentious issue during much of the negotiations. In the end, the United States and the other powers in the talks agreed to let it drop for two reasons. First, unlike Iran’s nuclear program, which was outlawed by the Non-Proliferation Treaty and some U.N. Security Council resolutions, there was nothing illegal about the missile tests. Second, the missiles were viewed as a threat only if they carried nuclear weapons; if the deal halts the nuclear program, the missiles wouldn’t be a threat—at least not in any way that this agreement encompassed."
OK, activists, think! Think! The missiles Iran makes are not the threat, the nukes are the threat. Missiles alone are not the threat!
I scanned thru lists of reasons the Iran deal is not perfect, 5, 9, 10, even a 21 items list by Mitch McConnell's staff. YOu know many of the 21 are stupid and irrelevant.
A deal is a deal and it is not as bad as the lists want us to believe. The list talk to irrelevant and not applicable issues. The point is that a single negotiated deal cannot cover every aspect of every Iranian activity in all of Iran's government.
So here are six (6) reasons that keeping the deal, AS IS, is important:
1. Tweety decertification is meaningless, except that it will alienate all the other signatories including China, Russia, and the European Union;
2. decertification gives Iran authorization to resume a full on nuclear bomb program;
3. no nation can ever trust the United States to uphold a deal so why bother negotiating with the United States;
4. we have a nuclear standoff with North Korea ongoing, so it's not a good idea to engage in another; that would make TWO nuclear standoffs at once (actually even one is insanity!); Is America really ready to try to dominate the entire planet by military force, because I doubt Russia or China will sit back and allow that to happen;
5. Tweety decertification of the Iran deal, washing his hands of the Iran deal, will isolate America in many ways, a version of unintended consequences; why would Russia or China trust the US in anything? Why would our allies trust the US in anything?
6. decertification of the Iran deal might be accompanied by Tweety listing the Iran elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. This group controls major business interests in Iran, supports terrorists, have deployed to fight ISIS, and can engage in open direct conflict with the US if that is what we want. Do Americans want to have a third war in the middle East, this one with Iran's Guard?
The solution is not as easy as Tweety wants to make it. Dropping bombs on all our international issues will not solve all the issues.
