{"id":10960,"date":"2015-09-11T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2015-09-11T02:39:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:39:13","slug":"iran-deal-is-approved-by-senate-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10960","title":{"rendered":"Iran deal is ‘approved’ by Senate … sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s quite clear that President Obama cannot call his “victory” in securing the Iran nuclear deal a “mandate.”<\/p>\n

It is, instead, a technical<\/em> victory. Senate Democrats gathered up enough votes to head off a Republican-sponsored resolution opposing the deal. Thus, the president won’t have to veto the resolution.<\/p>\n

GOP senator say they’ll keep bringing the deal up for a vote. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

Deal gets approved<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m glad the deal is headed for “ratification,” if you want to call it that.<\/p>\n

I’ll fall back to this notion in defense of the deal.<\/p>\n

Israel is Iran’s target were it to build a nuclear weapon. The deal prevents Iran from obtaining a nuke. The United States has pledged repeatedly since the founding of Israel in 1948 to stand behind our nation’s most dependable Middle East ally. The pledges have come from presidents of both parties.<\/p>\n

Whatever intention Iran has to wipe Israel off the planet would be met with severe force by any president who comes along in the future, regardless of political party.<\/p>\n

It is better to talk<\/em> our enemies out of doing something foolish than it is to bomb<\/em> them into oblivion.<\/p>\n

And, yes, you trigger-happy foes of this deal: Diplomacy always has its place.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s quite clear that President Obama cannot call his “victory” in securing the Iran nuclear deal a “mandate.” It is, instead, a technical victory. Senate Democrats gathered up enough votes to head off a Republican-sponsored resolution opposing the deal. Thus, the president won’t have to veto the resolution. GOP senator say they’ll keep bringing the … Continue reading Iran deal is ‘approved’ by Senate … sort of<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[540,5461,2315,2369,2539],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-diplomacy","tag-iran-nuclear-deal","tag-israel","tag-john-kerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10962,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions\/10962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}