speaking of insanity...

Submitted by David (United States), May 23, 2022 at 23:39

... I've been following the dialogue about Iran in the "Center for Security Policy" headed by Frank Gaffney, whom I believe the author must know, with some disbelief at the unseriousness of the debate and the ridiculousness of some of the assumptions currently being made.

Gaffney pronounces that he opposes the return to the Iran deal because, he intimates, Iran already has a nuclear bomb, therefore the deal purports to solve a problem that cannot be solved anymore. A better reason to oppose the return to the "deal," is that it solves no problem at all: it merely provides Iran with a glidepath toward a legalization of a weapon that it would otherwise be prohibited from obtaining by its own NPT obligations. ...

I credit this particular failure of will now, on the part of the DC establishment writ large, to the fact that Trump withdrew from the deal but could not summon the resolve to actually do something definitive about the nuclear program, transforming some conservatives who were once stalwart believers in the necessity of confronting the Ayatollahs, into belated defenders of a new status quo. A particular disappointment in this regard was Mike Huckabee, who pronounced around two years ago that Iran is not "a big enough" concern, and who cheered the former President for his "restraint."

Regarding Putin, I think the view that he's "capricious" is surely popular, but probably mistaken. He's a leader who has, for a multitude of reasons, made a serious strategic miscalculation.

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