In discussing the continuing shame that is the U.S. deal to allow Iran to continue its nuclear weapons program while simultaneously easing the sanctions that can never be put back, President Obama said that, “What we want to do is give diplomacy a chance, and give peace a chance.”
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In his remarks, Obama said he wanted to give the parties “time and space” to reach an agreement. He continued:
“If Iran is willing to walk through the door of opportunity that’s presented to them” then the country and its people will benefit.
“If they fail to walk through this door of opportunity, then we are in position to reverse the interim agreement and put in place additional pressure to make sure that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon.”
“My preference is for peace and diplomacy, and this is one of the reasons why I’ve sent the message to Congress that now is not the time for us to impose new sanctions, now is the time for us to allow the diplomats and technical experts to do their work.”
This is the voice of Obama’s inner child, espousing the uninformed, ill-formed, misguided world view of President Obama. Peace, agreed, is preferable to war. However, reason, understanding and history let you know whether that peace can be achieved. (Reason, understanding and history all being unavailable to the inner child.)
Iran is a nation that threatens the existence of other nations. Iran is a nation that summarily executes homosexuals for being homosexuals. Iran is a nation run by religious zealots that wish to expand their religious zealotry.
It is impossible to negotiate if you do not have a position from which to negotiate. The sanctions were that position. Now that they are relaxed, allowing Iran to trade in oil and gold and bring down the unemployment and inflation that were (at least, in part) the goal of the sanctions – to make things so uncomfortable for Iran that they would have to part ways with their nuclear dreams – America has nothing left to negotiate with. Except, of course, catchy phrases from singers 30 years dead.
Iran needed a deal, and got one. A deal we did not need to give. As Douglas Murray wrote about the appeasement of Iran:
The mullahs did not come to Geneva because they wished to give up their capability. And they did not come to the table because after 34 years of revolutionary Islamic governance they have seen the error of their ways. They came because international sanctions were beginning to hurt. Those sanctions – which took years to put in place – have now fallen apart thanks to a few days of incompetent negotiating on the part of the P5+1 plus some simple common sense from Tehran. People tend to say at this stage that the Iranians are ‘master negotiators’. They aren’t especially. They are simply fortunate to be playing against Catherine Ashton and a generation of other weak and short-sighted American and British politicians.
Short-sighted, by with a song in their inner-child heart. And, when dealing with murderous ideologues, that’s all that matters. Right?
Watch his comments here:
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