Just days after the Senate’s Republican leadership penned an open letter threatening to dishonor any agreement the US diplomatically makes with Iran, they are expressing outrage that the UN is considering lifting sanctions if and when that diplomatic agreement is reached.
Sen. Bob Corker (R – TN), the head of the Foreign Relations Committee, accused President Obama of putting the UN up to the vote to try to “undermine Congress’s appropriate role” in the negotiations.
That role, it seems, is as a spoiler, with those senators trying their damnedest to overtly violate the interim Iran deal, and failing that issued a public letter to Iran vowing to eventually do so with any deal made, to try to discourage Iran from agreeing to the pact.
The Security Council efforts do seem like they may take the wind out of the sails of those attempting to sabotage diplomacy, as it would ensure that sanctions are eased as a matter of international law, and would make it all the more difficult for the senate to try to override the deal.
Iran, or Persia, has been around a lot longer than the US and at the rate we're dragging ourselves down they'll be here long after the US collapses. It might be a good idea to keep in mind that in the world community, the US isn't even a teenager yet.
The most relevant thing is the nation and the Persian nation is very old while the US is just a peeble on its way, chronologically speaking.
Thank God – for commonsense against rabid "warmongering".
And they did not see that coming with all of the permanent members of the Security Council participating in the negotiations? Did they not understand that the 5+1 are negotiating for the entire world = 7 billion with the possible exception of Israel and a few tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean which is still at 7 billion who do not want nuclear wars? Did these men and women of our Senate really believe that they could rattle the governments of Russia, China, and probably Germany? The voters who elected them ought to hang their heads in shame if they have any left.
Actually, it might be a good thing if Congress passes new sanctions. It would demonstrate to the whole world, and especially the P5+1, that the US is not to be trusted. Coupled with our warmongering in Ukraine, it could lead to the collapse of NATO. Keep in mind Obama is Constitutionally authorized to instruct our UN ambassador not to veto the lifting of sanctions regardless of what Congress says.
Are these people expressing righteous national anger or just venting the frustrations of their foreign patrons and paymasters? This seems all of one piece with the hilarious letter they sent.
In the foreign policy world of "soft" and "hard" power, "hard" power is short term and dependent on expensive brute force, while "soft" power is based on reasoned persuasion and collaboration and is longer term. We are currently brandishing an image of "hard" power while burning up our "soft" power at an alarming rate. At the end, we will be broke with no real power at all.
What a bunch of arrogant wankers.