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Comments on: The Iran Agreement https://whynow.dumka.us/2015/07/14/the-iran-agreement/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 16 Jul 2015 02:04:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2015/07/14/the-iran-agreement/comment-page-1/#comment-79279 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 02:04:48 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=35325#comment-79279 The Iranians were willing to work with the US to eliminate al Qaeda and The Shrubbery just wouldn’t even thank them for all of the al Qaeda operatives they arrested.

Iran is like Cuba, a state that is hated even though it has never been at war with the US. Iran has been wronged by the US multiple times, but they have never attacked the US, or anyone else for the last three centuries.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2015/07/14/the-iran-agreement/comment-page-1/#comment-79273 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:21:46 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=35325#comment-79273 The reality is that while Iran is not on “our side” — they’re only on their own side — they are also the enemy of our enemy. Both ISIS and the Taliban think that the Shia are heretics who should be exterminated, and of course Iran is the world’s only officially Shiite state. The enemy of our enemy is not our friend, but they’re someone we can work with. The fat lazy corrupt old ayatollahs are griping because they can’t get the luxuries to which they’re accustomed because of the sanctions, so they have a decided incentive to go along with the deal.

It’s not as if they wanted nuclear weapons in the first place. What they wanted, was for the United States to not invade them, a US invasion being even more disruptive to fat old corrupt ayatollahs’ lifestyle than sanctions (hiding in caves is *not* how they want to spend their elder years!). Now that it’s pretty clear that the US public has no stomach for invading Iran, well.

ISIS, on the other hand… if we continue letting them have a de facto nation state, complete with petro-dollars, they *have* declared that they intend to strike the United States. Yeah, I think we can work with the Iranians there….

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