Letter to Iran
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Topic: Letter to Iran
Posted By: abuayisha
Subject: Letter to Iran
Date Posted: 12 March 2015 at 8:19am
The U.S. media have been sadly incurious about the origins of yesterday�s unprecedented Open Letter of 47 Republicans to the Iranian leadership seeking to block the president�s likely deal with Iran. The press has portrayed the letter as the work of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a 37-year-old freshman senator so new to the limelight that the New York Times got his name wrong on first impression. But as a Times commenter writes, �Does anyone really believe the �freshman senator from Arkansas� wrote the letter? No.�
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Posted By: Caringheart
Date Posted: 12 March 2015 at 4:57pm
Does agreeing with Netanyahu's position make someone out to be a patsy of Netanyahu?
This article seems to be suggesting that the senator only took this action because he 'got paid' to do it.
Are they suggesting that Netanyahu himself wrote the letter?
And, lets not overlook the fact that 47 senators signed on to it.
Isn't it just possible that a junior senator was willing to go out on a limb because he believed in his cause, and would receive a valuable contribution for doing so?
If this is a newbie, a young idealistic senator, and particularly from the state of Arkansas, which in my opinion is a state which still seeks to adhere to high ideals and principles... then it would not surprise me at all.
and yes, most people do not take big risks unless they see value in the payoff... whether that payoff be monetary, or moral... so I don't think it is right to slant the issue as this article has done.... that is... 'if anything is in favor of anything Jewish, then it must have been done by the Jews'...
What if that opinion had been held when blacks were fighting for their rights? What if every time a white person spoke in favor of 'black rights' it was said and believed that 'Ohhhh.... there must be a black person behind it somewhere, pulling the strings'?
Can people act merely on their own strong moral convictions?
jmo,
Caringheart
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Blessed be God forever
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Posted By: Tim the plumber
Date Posted: 13 March 2015 at 7:30am
The thing with international agreements is that they have little value to anybody once the conditions of such are no longer good for both parties.
I'm sure that Iran has, like any nation, broken and thrown away lots of agreements especially during it's revolution.
If Iran manages to negotiate a settlement with the US that works and allows for better trade etc then the US will stick to it for as long as if it was signed by every single US citizen.
Foreign policy and diplomacy are much more about pragmatism than ideology. The price of oil is far more important than anything else.
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