Still Appeasing After All These Years | Frontpage Mag

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : In return for our feckless generosity, Iran will receive further sanctions relief and other payments totaling as much as $20 billion, with a promise of no new sanctions, even as Iran keeps possession of its 60% enriched uranium, enough for five bombs.
49% : In particular we shouldn't put our faith in Iran.
46% : The terrorists were trained and financed by Iran.
45% : The provisions of this new plan include pledges from Iran not to enrich uranium any closer to the 90% needed for nuclear weapons, along with the return of American hostages.
44% :Similarly, the Democrat candidates for the upcoming presidential election "offered a near-unified assault" on the president, according to the New York Times, for, among other charges, his "failure to enlist the help of the United Nations in conducting the war"--even though Hussein had violated with impunity 18 U.N. Resolutions, and Bush had spent several fruitless months on diplomacy in a failed attempt to get the U.N. to approve the war, and salvage some of the U.N.'s damaged credibility.
41% : The "understanding" as reported does nothing to fix the deep flaws in our foreign policy toward Iran for the last 44 years, particularly the failings of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed in 2015 by the U.S. and six other world powers.
38% : After all, in 1970 Iran had signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but after the '79 revolution secretly began violating its terms.
37% : We need to remember these failures, for they sent a powerful message to Iran and other enemies like Osama bin Laden that we are a "weak horse" and would run rather than fight back.
37% : No wonder Iran has had American blood on its hands, most recently from drone attacks in Syria.
37% : And if those monitory tales of appeasing Iran aren't enough, take a look at the 30-year history of North Korea's march to nuclear weapons.
35% : As a down payment, Iran a few weeks ago received from Iraq $2.76 billion after Biden waived sanctions on the funds.
35% : This operation schemed to ransom the Americans by selling Iran over 2,000 TOW anti-tank missiles and over 100 HAWK anti-aircraft missiles.
35% : And don't forget, Iran has joined Russia and China in a triple alliance of our autocratic enemies.
33% : But don't worry, Iran will spend the windfall on "food and medicine," an old bait-and-switch we saw Saddam Hussein pull on us after the first Gulf War.
27% : In the end, arming an enemy sworn to our destruction--not to mention that this wacky scheme was seen as way to improve relations with Iran--did secured the release of the surviving three hostages.
20% : Ronald Reagan avoided it and won the Cold War through tough diplomacy, backed by military spending on armaments, and kinetic pushback on Soviet adventurism.
13% : By the way, there's no word on an IAEA finding in February that Iran has already enriched uranium to 84%, a claim that Iran brushed off as an "inspector's error."

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