CONSERVATIVES WHINE ABOUT IRAN AGREEMENT, BUT OFFER NO ALTERNATIVES BUT WAR

…The Fox contributor and false intellectual, Mr. George Will

 

As usual, if the idea was Obama’s, the Republicans hate it, regardless of if they have no alternatives.

 

Once again, the conservative columnist, George Will, shows that it really is time for him to move on to another career.  Perhaps stamp collecting or a collector of bobble-head dolls.  Will has really out-done himself over the past weeks.  He’s told some big whoppers both about Planned Parenthood and has gone after the Iran deal in spades.

As with most conservatives, Will is speaking out against the P5+1’s nuclear deal with Iran.  But even though it’s been made clear that by not accepting the current deal, the chances of getting the leaders of Iran and the other P5+1 countries back to the table again are zero to none.  But as usual, Mr. Will still has no suggestions for what to do if everybody walks away.

All that Will and the others want to do is whine about the deal, but they do so without offering any alternatives.  Will does this knowing that all the experts say that if the deal were to go away, Iran could have an operational nuclear device within 12 to 18 months.

We all know that if we go as far back as President JFK, he had said after becoming president that with a basic nuclear technology that goes back to the 1940’s, there eventually could be 15-20 nations with nuclear capability.  Therefore, just getting Iran to put their program on hold is a very big deal, especially considering that it’s not exactly a development of tomorrow’s latest rocket science.

In fact, Mr. Will made that point himself when he stated that this July 16^th was the 70^th anniversary of the first US nuclear explosion that was detonated in Alamogordo, New Mexico.  The reality is that the technology is so fundamental, that the basics of what it takes to develop and manufacture a nuclear device was actually printed in a monthly edition of a Popular Science Magazine back in the 1950’s.  Today, it is all readily available by anyone just using Google on the internet.

In fact, according to the latest statistics, the following nine countries: United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, all have nuclear weapons.  Also a fact is the total number of nuclear devices available today is estimated at 16,300 nuclear devices.  That’s enough nuclear bombs to kill most of the population of the world and to turn the world into a giant radioactive globe for thousands of years.

Therefore, just getting the extremist Iranian Muslim leadership to agree to sit down and negotiate their nuclear efforts, that was a very big deal.

Mr. Will thinks that because there were initial statements where the American negotiators had stated that the agreement would include “anywhere, anytime” inspections, since the final agreement isn’t “anywhere anytime”, and the inspections will require some notice, it must be a bad deal.  Will and his other conservatives, that basically all hate the president, they feel that regardless of whether the agreement is an acceptable alternative, their only alternative is to walk away. 

In other words, instead of putting the Iranian nuclear development on hold for 10 to 20 years, let’s walk away and let them go ahead and have the H-Bomb in 12 to 18 months.  We then won’t have any knowledge of what’s going on in Iran and we’ll also let them continue developing their ICBM missile development for delivering that bomb.  Oh, that’s really smart.

And by the way, if you do walk away, how would you then get the P-5+1 nations back to the table, not to mention the Iranian ayatollahs?

It is correct that no one thinks that the agreement is the best of the best.  But as it used to be in the US Congress, before the word “compromise” wasn’t treated like a dirty word, agreements between the two ideologies of conservative and progressives, the results usually gave both parties some of what both parties wanted.  That’s what diplomatic negotiations versus military conflict is supposed to be about!

With no apparent stated alternatives, I find it interesting that the conservatives are talking so strongly against the latest approach.  And who knows what the next generation in 10 to 15 years, that will be running the show in Iran, what will they want?  Perhaps they will want to stop being isolated and will want to join the world community.  At least, being able to monitor what’s going on in the country may be able to give the rest of the world a heads-up on what’s going on in Iran.  Today, no outsiders have any access to Iran’s internal issues.

Stranger things have happened than a nation coming to its senses.

Copyright G.Ater  2015