Quote:  If you believe that Iran's primary intention is to get the nuclear bomb,  which is my opinion and appears to be Ted Cruz's opinion,  tearing up the deal is a far better alternative than Iran being on a clear path to get the nuclear bomb as a result of this deal.   The inspection process is a joke.   

There is a deal in place that Iran agreed to. 24 days--which is the absolute maximum allowed, not the amount of time that will actually pass--is not enough time for them to remove all traces of nuclear bomb development from a facility, despite what your far-right blogosphere writers want you to think, and if Iran is found to be close to or in possession of a nuke, there would be an aggressive response from the US and EU (not to mention Israel, which might just attack independent of what the big boys do).

 

Meanwhile, what does tearing up that deal accomplish? Again, the US does not get to tear up the deal and hold a gun to Iran's head to force them back to the table. Iran has a deal now that they have agreed to with the west, one that actual nuclear scientists and proliferation experts--not Stephen A. Warhawk and the blog he runs from his basement--support. If the US tears up that deal with Iran, what makes you think they'd go back to the table? The restoration of sanctions? The rest of the world would never go along with that. The threat of military intervention? Sure, let's get ourselves into yet another Vietnam/Iraq situation that we can't win, then drop trillions of dollars and get tens of thousands of Americans killed in the process. Oh, and let's [BAD WORD REMOVED] off Russia, Europe and the OPEC nations at the same time.

 

You're living in a dream world if you think that deal would be torn up. Even Cruz isn't that stupid. He's just grandstanding so that wannabe "anti-establishment rebels" will keep his flailing campaign alive to the convention.

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