{"id":61259,"date":"2015-08-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61259"},"modified":"2015-08-08T03:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T07:51:28","slug":"about-that-iran-nuke-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61259","title":{"rendered":"About That Iran Nuke Deal . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reasonably sure that most TAH readers think the current \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">group of fools and tools in DC helping the POTUS screw things up by-the-numbers<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration\u2019s proposed nuclear deal with Iran is a serious mistake, and should be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>One would expect the Administration&#8217;s political foes to oppose the deal.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not only the Administration;s political opponents who have issues.\u00a0 For starters, Alan Dershowitz \u2013 one of the few liberals out there who IMO actually seems to have his head screwed on straight when it comes to terrorism \u2013 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/08\/dershowitz-obama-is-an-abject-failure-by-his-own-standards\/\">has come out strongly against the deal<\/a><\/em>. (He has some pretty harsh criticism of the POTUS\u2019s efforts; the linked article is IMO definitely worth a read.)<\/p>\n<p>It also seems that two senior Members of Congress from his own party \u2013 Sen. Schumer of New York, and Rep. Eliot, also of New York and ranking Minority Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee \u2013 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/08\/07\/2-top-democrats-announce-opposition-to-iran-nuclear-deal\/\">have now publicly stated their opposition to the deal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t understand that stance.\u00a0 I mean, really: what\u2019s not to like about a deal that gives away the farm to a nation that has declared you an enemy; which the Administration itself acknowledges will provide financial support to international terrorism; and which the Administration refuses to allow to be read by the public?<\/p>\n<p>Further, a lady named \u201cClinton\u201d has reportedly \u201ccautiously embraced the deal\u201d.\u00a0 And we all know that her judgement &#8211; particularly regarding foreign policy &#8211; is always &#8220;dead on target&#8221; and above reproach.\u00a0 I mean:\u00a0 just look at Benghazi, her use of email, and her hiring practices.\u00a0 So what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p><em>(For the record: yes, the previous two paragraph are indeed satire and\/or sardonicism.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Schumer&#8217;s argument for opposing the deal appears quite well-reasoned.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@SenSchumer\/my-position-on-the-iran-deal-e976b2f13478\">you can read it here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking this deal is now in serious trouble. And I&#8217;m also thinking . . . that\u2019s just too bad. (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reasonably sure that most TAH readers think the current \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0group of fools and tools in &hellip; <a title=\"About That Iran Nuke Deal . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61259\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About That Iran Nuke Deal . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84,241,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-nukes","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}