With the entire international community having ruled out negotiating a new P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran including the terms President Trump wants, the administration’s strategy has focused on trying to get the US Congress to impose the changes within US participation in the deal.
This includes expanding US threats of “snap back” sanctions into myriad behaviors totally unrelated to the nuclear deal. No one else would respect these US demands, but it would give President Trump some claim of Congressional support for imposing sanctions in violation of the pact.
It’s not clear President Trump will be able to push this through Congress however, especially in the Senate,where trying to get 60 votes is going to involve courting Democrats. There weren’t a lot of Senate Democrats with a problem with the deal in the first place, and among those who voted against it in 2015, many are openly critical of trying to go back on it now.
It’s not clear that Republicans in Congress are as uniformly against the deal as they were in 2015 either. Analysts have been warning for months that the US trying to back out of the deal now would leave the deal intact and the US international isolated.
Let’s see how long that resistance lasts when aicrap starts calling or knocking on the doors of these spineless Senators.
Will this end up like sanctions on Russia vote? Congress is neocon owned territory. The
problem for neocons, however, is Trump. Him letting them have their way in spades, is exposing them. They would prefer a smooth Obama, or technically correct Hillary. Their nasty, lying, perverted view of universe to suit every petty interest cannot possibly be creditably shepherded by someone who does not know how to wrap it up
Into righteous garb. They all must be really conflicted. But the dear self will probably prevail, unless congress gets really worried about their electability. They cannot pinch their noses at Trump, and then support him? One never knows. This is a country that imposed sanctions on Russia, taking their possession properties and removing their flag because they “meddled in US elections”, and then we have Commander in Chief that calls such evidence-free allegations fake. Who or what is running the country.
But it may be a problem for neocon wish list — American finances make us punch well above our weight.
Resistance = we want more money
While I’m appalled at what Trump did, I might at least find some visceral amusement at what the clowns in Congress come up with. How does one define ‘bad behavior’?
So Iran isn’t allowed to have any missiles whatsoever, what about rocket artillery, or mortars.
How do we know if they are funding Hezbollah, do we take Israel’s word for it?
I always hear the refrain, ‘Iran supports, Hezbollah, Hamas, and other terrorist groups’, can someone name one of these ‘other terrorist groups? Hezbollah is the extent of their terror network and they aren’t a terrorist group.
Who cares if they are funding Hezbollah? We fund Israel.
That will have to change .. It’s long time we stopped all financial and military to the wealthiest welfare state in the world – Israel – and use that money to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
How about putting most of that money toward rebuilding Puerto Rico, which has been a US territory since the end of the Spanish-American War, and suffered major damage from Hurricane Maria. Puerto Ricans are US citizens, and the USG has an obligation to help repair the electric grid, as well as to keep FEMA on the island until the people are able to stand on their feet again.
Good news at last?