The discourse (so far) about the Iran deal has been rather discouraging so far [View all]

[Proud Liberal Dem]

The Republicans are acting as though President Obama- in true Neville Chamberlain fashion- is giving the Iranian regime everything it wants without conditions and is being foolishly naive about its intentions and/or claiming that President Obama is using this deal in a cynical "wag-the-dog" fashion to distract everybody from the troubled (but improving) ACA roll-out. There was one of them whom said that we are rewarding bad behavior in spite of the fact that it seems to be quite opposite. This all despite the fact that this deal has been in the works for some time and could hardly be said to have just come from out of the blue, not to mention that Iran's new Iranian President has clearly indicated that he is much more willing to deal with the US on this issue than their previous President. I'm also not very happy with some of the Democratic Senators whom are continuing to saber rattle and are still supporting ADDITIONAL sanctions on the moment at the precise moment when we are trying to lift some of the sanctions in return for Iran's cooperation on the nuke concerns but their problem is just that they- for whatever reason- seem to be more concerned about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's position on the matter than US President Barack Obama's position. Et tu, Chuck?


Certainly, we need to keep up the pressure on Iran to make good on their end of the deal and the partial lifting of the sanctions can easily be reversed if they're not and military action, which is what most Republicans are usually salivating for (unless a Democrat is President that is), is always on the table if there is a real threat but Iran is also going to be allowing some pretty intrusive inspections on its part, so it's not like we're just pinky-swearing with them.