Tuesday, May 08, 2018

This is going to cost us


The Pr*sident of the United States made the world a much more dangerous and unpredictable place today. By pulling the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement, he not only put Iran back on track to a nuclear weapon, but he demonstrated that the U.S. won't stand up to its obligations or stand by its allies.

Let's review, shall we.

The agreement with Iran took about a decade to negotiate. Signing parties were Iran, the U.S., France, Great Britain, Germany, Russia and China.

As part of the agreement, Iran agreed to stop processing uranium for the development of nuclear weapons and agreed to a strict inspection regime to enforce that agreement.

According to the U.N. inspectors, our allies in Europe, and the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Iran has been in compliance with the agreement.

Under the agreement, Iran couldn't start back on the road to a nuclear weapon until 2030 at the earliest.

What Iran got was a return of about $2 billion that we froze decades ago (their own money), a loosening of sanctions, and a chance to normalize relations with the West. This was an unequivocally good thing.

But Trump threw all of that away for no reason other than he hates Obama. It's clear that he doesn't understand the agreement or what it means. All he knows is that he had a chance to dismantle something President Obama did. In his speech today announcing his decision, he gave no actual information on why this is a good idea or cited any facts that support pulling us out.

This decision greatly increased the possibility of us going to war in the Middle East. Again.

This will also affect the economy as it will likely drive gas prices up and new sanctions will disrupt the world economy.

Certification of the Iran agreement is one of the most important thing the U.S. President has to do, and we left the decision to a thin-skinned, ignorant, unfaithful, narcissistic, likely criminal, bully who doesn't have any idea what he's doing.

We are really stupid.

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