Kirk a One Trick Pony on Iran deal

My senator Mark Kirk (R. IL) sure can't speak extemporaneously very well about the 5 power nuclear deal with Iran. Asked to comment after its announcement, Kirk, one of the Senate's most virulent proponents of Iranian regime change, also known as war, compared it to the president making a worse deal than Neville Chamberlin got from Hitler at Munich in 1938. Then he postured that the proposed deal puts Israel on the road to war with Iran. Bot...h charges are unbecoming of a senator charged with promoting peace instead of war.

But he does a bit better when he has someone write out a relatively coherent speech such as he gave in last weeks Republican radio address. Mindful of his charge from the war party and the Israel Lobby to sabotage the current deal designed to reduce the likelihood of war, Kirk tried to sound cautious and peace loving; claiming he's merely trying to prevent another holocaust and a Middle East nuclear war. But we shouldn't be fooled by Kirk's nice-guy sounding rhetoric. Without a word of support for negotiations which is the only path to peace and eventual rapprochement with Iran, Kirk played the war card throughout, promoting sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions. When he calls Iran the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism, he conveniently omits mentioning his 14 year support in Congress for unnecessary and senseless war in the Middle East that his killed hundreds of thousands and injured or displaced millions.

When it comes to diplomacy, Kirk is a One Trick Pony; sanctions that will inevitably lead to war. Rather than charge ahead as leader of the War With Iran crowd that infests Congress, Kirk could better serve his state by visiting the families of Illinois soldiers killed in the senseless wars he's promoted and apologizing for his mendacious support for them.