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Three Questions & a Short Tirade

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A red herring?

The danger that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to the region and the world is directly related to these weapons. Iran may never actually deploy these weapons or even threaten to deploy them against her perceived enemies, but having them might make her feel freer to embark on a more aggressive and expansionist foreign policy, including providing support to a growing assortment of rogue regimes, sectarian militias, death squads and terrorist networks under the belief that her nuclear arsenal would shield her from any serious repercussions.

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The Pivot to Armageddon

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The theory that a pivot to Iran, sealed with an agreement regarding her nuclear program, will prevent the rise of a “Sino-Russo-Iranian condominium” in the Caspian Region and Central Asia have been around for many years, and, if we are to believe that they actually have a clear policy, this might indeed be what’s on the mind of President Obama and his trusted advisers, not to mention their myriad supporters in liberal think tanks and the halls of academia. Once reached, the deal will allow sanctions on Iran to be lifted, and this move, so the thinking goes, will gradually facilitate a rapprochement between Iran and the West, weaning her off of her growing reliance on Russia and China. Still, and while the theory can be made to sound compelling by its advocates, the rationale behind it is actually pretty lame if not downright delusional.

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Here I Stand

President Barack Obama speaks about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear deal in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Thursday, April 2, 2015. World leaders, he said, had come to a “historic understanding” on a possible deal to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
President Barack Obama speaks about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear deal in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Thursday, April 2, 2015. World leaders, he said, had come to a “historic understanding” on a possible deal to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

A rare point of agreement between the critics and advocates of a deal with Iran starkly captures the nature of my own disaffection with it and with the current state of affairs in our world. The point simply put is this: the deal is being inked with Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni blood.

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