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Bruce Thornton: Beware the Fool’s Gold of Diplomacy


 

They need to be crushed, it’s that simple…

Beware the Fool’s Gold of Diplomacy

Negotiation only gives the Mullahs time.

Bruce Thornton

The killing of Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike, and Iran’s accidental downing of a Ukrainian commercial airliner, have both humiliated the mullahs and exposed their lethal incompetence. Continuing protests by Iranian citizens against the feckless and corrupt regime reveal deepening fissures in the Iranian political order, as President Trump’s “maximum pressure” on Iran’s economy continues to bite deeper.

 

But while we should be pushing harder on the tottering regime, the same old voices of idealistic internationalism are calling for “diplomatic outreach” and “negotiations” to rewrite the nuclear deal. President Trump’s goal of that pressure, at least rhetorically so far, is also to renegotiate the nuclear deal and give it teeth, though he has put the burden on Iran to take the first step. And Britain, France, and Germany have triggered the nuclear agreement’s “dispute mechanisms” which could lead to broader “snap-back” sanctions on Iran. They too are calling for a renegotiated agreement.

 

But instead of yet again mining the fool’s gold of diplomacy, we should resist this glittering fraud. Diplomatic “engagement” with Iran will achieve nothing other than to give Iran time to spin its centrifuges, and inch closer to a nuclear weapon and the missiles to deliver them.

 

That dangerous outcome may be closer than we think. The Israeli Defense Force estimates Iran may have enough fissile material for a bomb by this spring, and in two years missiles capable of delivering nuclear bombs, thanks in part to the $150 billion Barack Obama handed over as a reward for signing the nuclear deal. Israel, of course, whom Iran has promised countless times to “wipe off the map,” understandably has an interest in possibly exaggerating the threat, especially given the proven indifference of the “international community” to the incessant rocket-attacks from terrorists sponsored by Iran, and to the global, vicious anti-Semitic calumny usually shrugged off with Diplospeak tut-tutting. Israel can’t afford such insouciance.

 

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