OBAMA VICTORY IN IRAN ON THE LINE

The Republican ‘mindset’ makes it difficult for them to understand what a great foreign policy victor the nuclear arms limitations treaty with Iran really is. It would be worth their time to try to understand what is really happening but I fear that they are not capable of doing that because, as I just said, Obama’s foreign policy principles are so different from theirs; it is not how they think. Apparently, they feel they have the Iranians on a short leash and are poking them with a sharp stick. If the sniveling, quaking Iranians only cower at ever jab, then they know they have them where they want them; they will “voluntarily” allow Israel to control their government. We saw this same scenario play out at the end of the First World War with Europe verses a defeated Germany and know what happened. If that is too remote, then stop and look at the Israeli-Palestinian relationship for a model of an abject defeat like the situation that led up to the Second World War.

Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry know that the Iranian government must have some standing with their own people for lasting peace. There are hoards of people in Iran, hard liners, who view the United States as the Devil incarnate. If we put their government in a position of abject surrender with no chance for them a show any visible benefits, the people of Iran the middle east, the entire Arab world they would be seen as the United States leaving them no dignity; thus, they would not be able to rule their own nation. Any agreement with that government would not have much meaning. That would be the end of the Arab Spring. Again, Israel is at the heart of the Republican drive to destroy the negotiations. If you look at the Democrats that are not going to vote for the treaty, you find the reflection of the American microcosms of Israeli. It is time for the Jewish Americans break ranks with the Israeli Americans—AIPAC—the two groups do not seem to have the same intensities of loyalty especially those American citizens who are in the Israeli army. The relationship is not like that between the Catholics and Vatican.  Opposing the treat is not good for America. In fact, it is not good for Israel, but the Radical right wing in power in Israel would be like having McCain for president.

Again, we can look back at Woodrow Wilson and Republican Henry Cabot Lodge who was the John McCain of that time, who destroyed the League of Nations treaty—the entire world approved of the treaty but much to the shame of the Untied States didn’t. Of course, you remember what was happening in Palestine at the time—the seeds of partition of Israel were nurtured with the Balfour Declaration, which had tenuous ties with Wilson’s policies.

April 20^th is the day that the Iran treaty is initiated, which signals a great victory of Obama, for America, for the Middle East and for the world, which is reason enough for the “hate everything Obama” to vote against it.  You may have enough of a coalition to defeat the treaty if you add this group to the Republicans who really think we should reduce Iran to a sniveling fetal position before we given the one final kick and make them beg for mercy.  It would be a tragedy for America. Que sera, sera.

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