Quote:No, that's not what i'm saying and that's not what we're saying.  

 

Why relieve american sanctions?  Why allow them to get 150 billion dollars?  At what point do they have to show that they are responsible?  At what point do they have to demonstrate that we tangibly get something out of making these economic concessions?  

 

You could have left those sanctions in place until Iran came to the table with a reasonable proposal.  As it stands now, we KNOW that they are still violating deals with the international community, buying weapons systems from Russia (the exact weapons systems to defend against air strikes in the event they violate the deal) and their leader is publishing books about how to trick and ultimately destroy America.  It's like something out of the twilight zone.  

 

Also, you can't just say that "well last time we went over there it didn't really work out" without confronting the reality that the reason for most of our setbacks was military assistance from the very country that we are making concessions to?  Quasim Soelimani himself is personally responsible for between 500-1000 deaths of US troops and Iran basically funded the post Sadamm Insurgency in Iraq.  Why give these people more money more weapons when they openly tell anyone who listens they aren't going to change their behavior towards Israel, they aren't going to change their behavior towards our interest in the region, they are going to ramp up their sponsorship of international terrorism that potentially threatens our stateside national security.  

 

To TJBender's point, if this deal truly represented a normalizing of relations and a turning from terrorism on the world stage from Iran then i could live with some of the concessions because the chance for them to neutralize their aggression in the region and stabilize the middle east would be too great to ignore.  Right now it looks like we are just further arming the people we may be forced into engaging militarily in the near future anyway because THEY are heck bent on war, not us.