Two Views of Iran Nuclear Deal, Pat Buchanan and Melanie Sturm

Sturm's analysis makes more sense. Buchanan ignores the long term antipathy of Iran toward the United States since the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. He focuses on economics rather than national security. He equates China and Russia who were, and are, large established nations with a lot to lose, with Iran which supports terror networks throughout the world. Iran is a theocracy unlike China and Russia.

[From article]
Causing the collective eyes of the political class to roll, Trump and Sanders resonate with a pablum-fed electorate starving for authentic debate, policies aligned with citizens’ concerns and leaders who say what they mean and mean what they say.
Witness the deceptions being used to normalize the mortal threat posed by Tuesday’s nuclear deal with Iran’s genocidal Ayatollahs. They’ve sponsored a slow-motion jihad against America ever since revolutionaries seized our embassy and hostages in 1979, asserting their constitution’s commitment to “universal holy government and the downfall of all others.”
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The truth is, every president since Carter has failed to deploy these powers to oppose Iranian hostility, allowing committed revolutionaries and skilled diplomats to out-flank and out-negotiate the mightiest nation on Earth.
Iran doesn’t control all terrorists, but it’s the head of an Islamic supremacist snake seeking to subjugate humanity and destroy freedom. Responsible for killing and maiming thousands of Americans, and posing threats we’ve neither anticipated nor mitigated, their unanswered aggression has stimulated more aggression.
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The truth is, every president since Carter has failed to deploy these powers to oppose Iranian hostility, allowing committed revolutionaries and skilled diplomats to out-flank and out-negotiate the mightiest nation on Earth.
Iran doesn’t control all terrorists, but it’s the head of an Islamic supremacist snake seeking to subjugate humanity and destroy freedom. Responsible for killing and maiming thousands of Americans, and posing threats we’ve neither anticipated nor mitigated, their unanswered aggression has stimulated more aggression.

http://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/17276064-113/sturm-the-iran-deal-normalizing-a-mortal-threat

Melanie Sturm
Think Again
July 15, 2015
Sturm: The Iran deal: Normalizing a mortal threat

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For even if Congress votes to deny Obama authority to lift U.S. sanctions on Iran, the U.S. will vote to lift sanctions in the U.N. Security Council. And Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, all parties to the deal, will also lift sanctions.
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Would we bomb Iran? Would we go to war? Not only would Americans divide on any such action, the world would unite — against us.
[How does Buchanan know this?]
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“Either the issue of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapons is resolved diplomatically through negotiation or it’s resolved through force,” said the president, “Those are the options.”
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Our principal enemies are now al-Qaida and ISIS. And while both have been aided by our old allies, Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, both are being resisted by Iran.
[Oh? is it only ISIS and al Qaeda who openly demand, "Death to America!"?]
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Remarkable. Iran agrees not to build a bomb it had already decided not to build, and we agree to lift all sanctions. And they pulled it off.
What is one or two atom bombs you can’t use, without committing national suicide, compared to $100 billion in freed assets and a welcome mat back to the community of nations.
[Has Buchanan become a lobbyist for Iran? Or for John Kerry?]

http://buchanan.org/blog/the-gops-iran-dilemma-16263

The GOP’s Iran Dilemma
Thursday - July 16, 2015 at 11:36 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan