This is from the Center for American Progress:
The United States and its negotiating partners—known collectively as the P5+1—are just days away from a potential agreement to halt Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon. This is a critical moment that could peacefully resolve one of the most vexing national security threats the United States has faced over the past two decades. Iran came to the negotiating table because President Barack Obama and Congress worked together to impose some of the most restrictive and effective economic sanctions the world has ever seen. Getting from the negotiating table to a lasting agreement will require an equal demonstration of executive-legislative cooperation.
What do you think? I find it immensely niave given Iran is in the process of taking over the Middle-East. Are we being had? Is this another example of the progressive left being lead down a garden path by its ideology? “Peacefully resolved” “lasting agreement”
I the meantime things are going great in other parts of the area:
AL RASHID AIR BASE, Iraq — By Day 2 of the American airstrike campaign against militants holed up in Tikrit, the mission appeared beleaguered on several fronts on Thursday: Thousands of Shiite militiamen boycotted the fight in protest, others threatened to attack any Americans they found, and Iraqi officials said nine of their fighters had been accidentally killed in an airstrike.
In Washington, American military leaders insisted that things were going according to plan. They said that they were stepping into the Tikrit fight only after the Iranian- and militia-led advance on the city had stalled after three weeks, and that they welcomed working solely with Iraqi government forces. New York Times 3-26-15
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Personally I believe we need to leave no stone unturned in our goal of arriving a peaceful solution with Iran. The alternative is unthinkable. Netanyu is a very evil man in my estimation. The audacity of coming here on the eve of the vote in his country and breaking with all protocol to lobby against the congress’ consideration of a peace plan and then the further audacity of Sen. Cotton and the 47 members who signed on to warn of the repeal of any such possible agreement was unthinkable. Many are quick to lay blame on the administration but the truth as I see it is the years of blindly siding with Israel need to come to an end. We need to view the goal in that part of the world as, what is fair, not, what do the Israeli leaders want. Until that mantra changes there will be no peace and we are now working very hard on just one such piece of the puzzle, Iran. After that we need to continue to parcel out justice throughout the region. The two state solution which Netanyu once embraced he has now reneged on. In my opinion there can be no peace in the Mideast without first a two state solution. With Netanyu at the helm of Israel that will not happen he has stated, so it is time for him to go. The idea of separating ourselves from this regime is the only hope we have of arriving a fair solution with the Arab world. There can be no peace when he completely undermines what he said was his goal several years ago when he proclaimed he was in favor of the two state solution the Palestinian question. Now he states he will never support such a solution. Being a Palestinian in the partitioned Israel amounts to being a non-entity in your homeland. You are treated as cattle having to go through gates to leave your neighborhood. How can we know the mind of such people when all we see is the lily white world that Israel wants presented, e.g. Israel is the only democracy in the region. See the people leaving for the school/work when they need to allow for the extra time to pass through the checkpoints might make people in this country have a better understanding of their plight. I know it will not happen in a short timeframe but unless we start to look for a fair resolution we will always be the target of Arab hate. We must change their opinion by our actions. Iran may be one such attempt to change the world, so yes, I think we need to make every attempt to be successful in that pursuit. To your question then of ‘peacefully and lasting’, honestly I don’t have an answer but I do think we must be certain that we have made every attempt to arrive at that goal.
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I tend to agree with you. Israel has a right to exist, but so do the Palestinians. If the 1948 “agreement” had been handled better and all commitments met, we may not have this mess. But it takes two sides. The Palestinians also must give up their no Israel stance as well. There must be two states or this will go on forever.
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Let’s see – they Saudi’s attack the rebels supporting Iran in Yemen and we negotiate (sorry – consider allowing centrifuges in Iran to remain as long as they are behind strong vaults) with Iran. I did poorly in geography, but does not all shipping out of Saudi, Eqypt and others pass through or near the coast of Yemen? How do we spell ‘strangle hold’?
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