Power is not the answer to all problems. But neither is restraint. If you have the power to prevent the world’s biggest exporter of terrorism from developing nuclear immunity yet fail to use it, then disarm, embrace pacifism, and prepare to suffer the consequences.
To those who blame President Trump for abandoning the…
Power is not the answer to all problems. But neither is restraint. If you have the power to prevent the world’s biggest exporter of terrorism from developing nuclear immunity yet fail to use it, then disarm, embrace pacifism, and prepare to suffer the consequences.
To those who blame President Trump for abandoning the JCPOA, Barack Obama’s deal with Iran, consider this: Had the JCPOA still been in effect, its “sunset clause,” allowing Iran to produce advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade level in a matter of weeks, would be coming into effect around now. At the same time, the JCPOA would have permitted Iran to continue developing nuclear warheads and delivery systems.
And had the economic sanctions ended, Iran would have benefited from a massive infusion of funds, immensely strengthening the regime and its terror proxies. Iran would have become the regional power in the Arab world; a nuclear Iran would have been virtually unstoppable.
For the last 40 years, the Iranian regime has consistently expressed, in rhetoric and policy, its intention to destroy the Jewish state. Yet the international community took those threats and actions in stride. There has been little or no outrage from governments, human rights organizations, or religious leaders at the genocidal threat aimed at Israel. Most of all, the UN accepted as a given the violation of its own charter, which states that a member state may not threaten the existence of another. The moral burden for the current crisis is not on Israel but the world.
This presumes that no additional negotiating would've happened had the deal remained intact and Iran continued to honor it. The JCPOA was never intended to be the be all end all agreement, but rather an initial agreement to work from.
But the JCPOA strenghtened Irans hands so the idea that one was going to get a more restrictive deal at the end or in the middle of the JCPOA is sort of fanciful. But the larger point is even if you believe the JCPOA was the best deal ever or the best deal at the end, at the end of the JCPOA it was always going to be what Trump just did because even if the JCPOA had been followed, Iran would be on the brink of the bomb today. So love the JCPOA if you like but you can't love it with any consisitent logic and then decry what just happened. I don't like Trump and wish it had been a different President that gets to claim the credit but it is what it is.
From Times of Israel:
Power is not the answer to all problems. But neither is restraint. If you have the power to prevent the world’s biggest exporter of terrorism from developing nuclear immunity yet fail to use it, then disarm, embrace pacifism, and prepare to suffer the consequences.
To those who blame President Trump for abandoning the JCPOA, Barack Obama’s deal with Iran, consider this: Had the JCPOA still been in effect, its “sunset clause,” allowing Iran to produce advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade level in a matter of weeks, would be coming into effect around now. At the same time, the JCPOA would have permitted Iran to continue developing nuclear warheads and delivery systems.
And had the economic sanctions ended, Iran would have benefited from a massive infusion of funds, immensely strengthening the regime and its terror proxies. Iran would have become the regional power in the Arab world; a nuclear Iran would have been virtually unstoppable.
For the last 40 years, the Iranian regime has consistently expressed, in rhetoric and policy, its intention to destroy the Jewish state. Yet the international community took those threats and actions in stride. There has been little or no outrage from governments, human rights organizations, or religious leaders at the genocidal threat aimed at Israel. Most of all, the UN accepted as a given the violation of its own charter, which states that a member state may not threaten the existence of another. The moral burden for the current crisis is not on Israel but the world.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-had-to-be-done/
This presumes that no additional negotiating would've happened had the deal remained intact and Iran continued to honor it. The JCPOA was never intended to be the be all end all agreement, but rather an initial agreement to work from.
But the JCPOA strenghtened Irans hands so the idea that one was going to get a more restrictive deal at the end or in the middle of the JCPOA is sort of fanciful. But the larger point is even if you believe the JCPOA was the best deal ever or the best deal at the end, at the end of the JCPOA it was always going to be what Trump just did because even if the JCPOA had been followed, Iran would be on the brink of the bomb today. So love the JCPOA if you like but you can't love it with any consisitent logic and then decry what just happened. I don't like Trump and wish it had been a different President that gets to claim the credit but it is what it is.