Gulf Arab allies jubilant at U.S. withdrawal from Iran deal

Discussion in 'Politics' started by bone, May 8, 2018.

  1. bone

    bone

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  2. Obama is pissed so you know it is the right thing to do.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/08/obama-iran-nuclear-deal-democrats-republicans-reaction

    He is the one thought that he was Mr. Clever and could just label the treaty a "deal" and in that way avoid getting Senate approval. The risk to that type of maneuver is that the next president can just unwind it at the stoke of a pen. But he new that and was not worried because he expected Hillary to replace him. Ditto for DACA. Of course, contrary to what you read hear everyday from the lefties, Hillary did not win.
     
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  3. This is what the oil and defense industries wanted. It is now time to punish the country with higher gas prices and a soon to be war in Iran?

    And the Republican non 1%er's still tout the propaganda their masters on the plantation are telling them. Do we call it a plantation or Reagan's Big Tent?
     
  4. wildchild

    wildchild

    You have Obama pissed and John Kerry committing treason and trying to work back room deals with Iran. That tells you everything you need to know about the deal.

    Obama paid these clowns bribe money too. It is going to take years to recover from the Obama debacle.

    Trump still has a lot of repairative work to do, but this is a step in the right direction.
     
  5. jem

    jem

    I would rather pay more at the pump now than see iran launch nukes all over in 10 years.
    That deal was insane. let them develop missiles as they get their nuke to zero break out time and give them billions of dollars to fund terror throughout the world.

    Leftist hate america insanity at the core of that Iran deal. We got nothing and they got a treaty which gave them money and time to develop their weapons.

     
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  6. bone

    bone

    Yes, you are correct in that it has been a pillar of Republican policy that the Iran Deal was a terrible mistake. Trump made a campaign promise and he kept it. But, it gets alot more complicated than that because Iran's neighbors were ignored, insulted and dismissed outright by Obama and Kerry during the process and so they decided to take matters into their own hands.

    All of Iran's immediate neighbors were dead set against the deal. They despised the fact that the U.S. and the Europeans were enabling Iran to step up it's hostilities with it's immediate geographical neighbors. In other words, they brokered a deal without any skin in the game. That would be like the state of Washington deciding a dispute over private property rights and public access to Lake Michigan beaches on the Indiana shoreline.

    On April 2, 2015 the Gulf States and Israel were essentially forced to become allies and wage what has essentially become a regional war against Iran. It's an open secret that the Mossad and the Saudi GID are working very closely together. Those very recent Israeli air strikes against Iranian targets in Syria only happened because the Gulf States not only allowed Israeli aircraft to overfly their territory - there was a leak in the Israeli press that they provided air-to-air refueling! That is correct - Arab tanker jets refueled Israeli F-16's. Iran's leadership and nuclear scientists are reportedly terrified of the Mossad - and rightfully so. The Mossad apparently moves into and out of Iran with ease and has a great deal of high level espionage intelligence access within the bowels of the Iranian government - enough to locate and then export a stunning cache of nuclear program physical documents and digital files.

    There is a tremendous amount of crude oil supply on the market today. North America has become the largest producer in the world. If Iran wants to play games in the Strait of Hormuz I would expect expect some temporary volatility but in terms of world oil supply any dislocation would IMO be rather short-lived.

    My point being, that President Trump has not declared warfare on Iran. Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) banded together 37 months ago and did that. IMO on May 8, 2018 President Trump essentially chose to stand aside and let this be a regional matter because it already is and has been for over three years.
     
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  7. Poindexter

    Poindexter

    Leftist icon, murderer and all-around scumbag Teddy Kennedy also thought he knew better and tried to undermine Reagan with Yuri Andropov.