Why would hardliners in Iran want to forego the prospect of becoming a nuclear power, especially when faced with hardliners in the US and Israel, both in possession of nuclear weapons?
The question is raised again by the condescending little lecture on the American constitutional system, delivered by forty-seven Republican Senators in the form of an open letter. Without Congress or the next president’s approval, they told Iranian leaders, no agreement by President Obama would be honored by Washington.
Undermining the full faith and credit of the US has now been extended from financial matters to foreign policy. Republicans, who lament our supposedly weak president, work relentlessly to weaken him. (Don’t think Vladimir Putin fails to take notice.)
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