Sunday, September 13, 2015

Republicans Plan for Iran by Luis Ceja flex period

After having reached an agreement with Iran to take down sanctions in exchange for cutting down there nuclear program. The deal was met with unanimous opposition from the GOP. Many immediately attacking it without even reading it. Which I personally believe the majority of there reason for opposition is the oil lobbying.While I may support it, it certainly isn't perfect for example the deal is supposed to last only 10 years. What people don't understand though is that it's diplomacy nothing is gonna be perfect. In fact this deal is better than what I expected. Now since the republicans are opposed to the deal the question that should be asked (even though it's not) is what is there solution to deal with Iran. Let's run through the potential options. First reinstate and increase sanctions. There are several things that don't work with that first being that the international community is against sanctions in the first place and wanted a deal. So trying to reinstate sanctions would only temper with the international community that is already tired of our gung-ho attitude. That brings us to the option they seem to pushing quite a lot nowadays. Military action against Iran. In fact they are so against diplomacy they believe that a 2/3rd's majority vote should be needed to approve the deal and other diplomatic solutions. While a simple majority vote to declare war, and finally they don't even believe the president should need congressional authority for drone strikes on other countries. It's the only foreign policy action they've supported yet it's the most controversial and untrustworthy action are president has made on foreign policy. They seem to want to rush to judgement and invade Iran but if we look back at the last 15 years how well has that gone for us. We know invading will cause more harm then good and the only reason to is to capitalize on oil there which is greedy and would mean profit for politicians and companies at the expense of american lives. So unless they can come up with a better solution that keeps Iran from developing nuclear weapons while being diplomatically sane and having the support of the U.N. and one that doesn't risk american lives I think we oughta take the deal we have. Cause it's the best we got.

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