Sunday, November 11, 2018

Neither Trump, nor Trib, can squeeze anything but failure from Iran sanctions



The Trib editorial, 'Trump can squeeze Iran to get nuclear deal 2.0" is so out of touch with the reality of US-Iran policy, it can only be described, just like the president, as delusional. Fifty, a hundred years from today, historians may well describe the 5+1 nuclear deal with Iran as the high mark of President Obama's foreign policy, being the most effective initiative to avoid a senseless and self destructive war. When clueless demagogue candidate Trump called it a horrible deal the Trib applauded, having never accepted detente with Iran as the sane foreign policy tenant it is. When Trump rescinded the deal, calling for new sanctions, the Trib signed on, oblivious to the fact the entire world save Iran's bitter rivals Saudi Arabia and Israel were horrified. Calling the many nations "scrambling to find workarounds to US economic sanctions...a desperation move", the Trib appears clueless Trump has given temporary waivers to China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Greece and Turkey to keep buying Iranian oil. That sure sounds more like desperation on the American side. It's not 'Iran's terror sponsoring leaders who are increasingly boxed in"... its the terror sponsoring American war party headed by Trump that has become isolated as it has become the laughingstock of the world. Check out Brown University's recent study https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-war-on-terror-has-killed-about-half-a-million-people-study-1944721, that estimates half a million needlessly killed by US Middle East wars since 911. Calling Trump "the deal-maker" when he's simply a reckless deal breaker is baffling. Breaking the Iran nuclear deal has not gone unnoticed by North Korea. Negotiations between the US and North Korea have ground to a halt. And after declaring victory from the meaningless photo op of Trump embracing the leader he called "rocket man" and urged China "to make that man disappear...very quickly", nothing. Trump is being played by Kim Jong-un and is now being played by our rapidly disappearing allies over Iran. The Trib closed there valentine to Trump's exercise in futility declaring the "2015 deal is dead." Au contraire, dear Trib Editorial Board. It's Trump's new and needless sanctions that are D.O.A.

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