Coming To The Wrong Conclusion

Here's a fast question:  What do Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar have in commone?

 

If you said they are all Democrats, you'd be correct, but that's not the point of the question.  If you said that they are the Democrat presidential candidates who have publically vowed that they would reinstate the Iran nuclear deal if elected, then you win a prize.  That's right, these four prominent candidates say that they would go back to a deal that guarantees that Iran gets nuclear weapons in just another five years.  The reasons that they give for such a boneheaded move is that Obama put us into that deal and Trump took us out.  They may not use those exact words, but their statements boil down to that fact.

 

When President Trump withdrew from the JCPOA (as the Iran deal is called), the pundits told us that it would isolate the USA and have no effect on Iran.  The withdrawal would never work to pressure Iran because the other countries involved did not join in that move.  Now, more than a year later, it has become clear that these self proclaimed experts were wrong.  American sanctions have been reimposed.  Iranian oil sales have plummeted, and are about to go much lower as the initial waivers granted by the USA expire and are not renewed.  Iran's economy is reeling.  The pressure on the mullahs is growing by the day, and the USA has suffered no ill effects.  We are NOT isolated.

 

Given that Trump's policy is moving towards a positive outcome, why would these four Democrats rush to announce that they would reverse that policy?  The only audience that really cares about such statements is in Teheran.  The mullahs are being told that if they can just wait for President Trump to be defeated, then they can get their deal back; they can get back the huge cash flow that the US action has cut off.  They can get back their path to nuclear weapons approved by their enemies.  They can laugh as the foolish Americans manage to give them everything they want while they give up nothing in return.

 

I've yet to hear any rationale from any of these four why the JCPOA should be reinstated.  No one asks about it.  The reporters are all too hung up on Medicare for All or the Green New Deal.  They ask the same questions over and over and never get to other critical issues.  In the past Sanders has said things like we shouldn't be the ones who decide what other countries do, even when it comes to nuclear weapons.  That's crazy, especially if those other countries are always chanting "death to America", but hey, that's Bernie.  The other three have never said much on the issue of Iran.

 

As of now, these four have come to the wrong conclusion.  Hopefully, they will change their minds.  Stopping Iran from getting nukes should not be a partisan issue.