{"id":30854,"date":"2018-07-09T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30854"},"modified":"2018-07-09T01:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T01:40:42","slug":"which-is-worse-the-iran-deal-or-the-n-korea-non-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30854","title":{"rendered":"Which is worse, the Iran deal or the N. Korea non-deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kerry-Zarif-RTX22N89.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30855\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kerry-Zarif-RTX22N89-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kerry-Zarif-RTX22N89-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kerry-Zarif-RTX22N89.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump campaigned for the U.S. presidency vowing to toss aside the Iranian nuclear arms deal brokered by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>He did what he promised to do. We&#8217;re now out of the deal, even though our partner nations remain committed to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does the president do? He goes to Singapore, meets with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un, declares the North Korean nuclear threat to be over after supposedly extracting a pledge to &#8220;denuclearize&#8221; the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Except that Kim Jong Un didn&#8217;t agree to what Trump said he did. Now we hear that Kim is <em>accelerating<\/em> his nuclear weapon development.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the Iran deal actually resulted in the Iranians getting rid of fissile material it could have used to build a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes from the guy who pledged to make the &#8220;best deals&#8221; in the history of humankind. He promised to end the &#8220;disastrous&#8221; deals worked out by President Barack Obama&#8217;s team in conjunction with our allies.<\/p>\n<p>However, he didn&#8217;t get any kind of deal from Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s headed to Helsinki, Finland, where he&#8217;ll meet one-on-one &#8212; sans national security aides &#8212; with Russian strongman\/former KGB boss Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>What in the world can go wrong with <em>that<\/em> meeting?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump campaigned for the U.S. presidency vowing to toss aside the Iranian nuclear arms deal brokered by the Obama administration. He did what he promised to do. We&#8217;re now out of the deal, even though our partner nations remain committed to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. So, what does the president do? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Which is worse, the Iran deal or the N. 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