Quote:Like? Russia...ex ally? Germans...past enemy? Japan? Iraq that we have funded. Iran that we have funded?

And of course, let's not forget England.  And Spain.  And ourselves.

 

The thing I have against the "WE COULDA GOTTA BETTER DEAL!" pundits is that I really don't think we could have.  Our allies not named Israel or Saudi Arabia all wanted a deal.

 

We can reject this deal, but Russia, France, U.K., Germany, China and the European Union aren't going to.  So we'd be going it alone on Iran sanctions, which is next to useless, or going to war, which sucks for everybody and ticks off our allies, who are kind of sick of us making excuses for nation-building in the Middle East.  It also costs a hell of a lot of money and more American lives.

 

If we sign off on this deal, and Iran goes ahead and cheats, we are now in a much better position with our allies to go to war, which is what the hawks, and their leader, the Prime Minister of Israel, really seem to want.  We have nothing to lose by passing an agreement, seeing if they cheat, and then take over their country with international blessing.

 

And who knows - shrug - maybe they won't cheat.

 

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