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These negotiations with Iran include the largest European countries along with Russia and China. Plus the rest of the world is already involved. Even Japan, South Korea and Brazil follow the sanctions currently in place.
Expect even Netanyahu to walk back his position.
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Imagine if a US president broadcast such a message, warning the white electorate that black voters were heading to the polls in “large numbers”. Or if a European prime minister said: “Quick, the Jews are voting!” This is the moral gutter into which Netanyahu plunged just to get elected.
Netanyahu sank into the moral gutter - and there will be consequences Jonathan Freedland Comment is free The Guardian
Then he went on to say:
Mindful of the damage his win-at-all-costs moves had wrought, Netanyahu lost no time trying to unsay what he had said. In his victory speech, he promised to be prime minister of all Israelis, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. And in a US TV interview on Thursday, he insisted that he does want a “sustainable, peaceful two-state solution” after all, so long as “circumstances” change.
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Like a typical right winger, he terrorized his own base into voting for him and walked back the "terror" only days after the election. Clearly, right wingers have very short memories beyond "we WON!". Unfortunately for them, everyone else's memories are much longer.
No country has ever been coerced into not developing nuclear weapons. They have always been negotiated into it. Obviously with sanctions being part of that negotiation. Ignorant ass Republicans say "bomb them out of existence" in spite of the fact that would turn the entire world's Muslims against us at a time when they are fighting each other. Fuck 'em. Let them fight each other. Stop the Republicans from putting Americans in the middle.
Worse, it's not a case of a single bomb run. It would take thousands over months or years. Iraq has had decades to build secret underground bunkers all over the country. Even if we found them all, there's no guarantee we could do much against them depending how reinforced they are and how deep underground and how well hidden.
This is all about "hate Obama" and Republicans don't care if they put the economy in the shitter, screw over their own base or threaten the safety of the entire world if they think they can just "embarrass" Obama. They want to embarrass the president and will do anything they can, no matter how much it threatens all of us if only they can. They think they will "teach him a lesson".
Uh, no. This president is endangering the country. Its appalling.
Deep, thoughtful analysis, stunning insight.