War with Iran

Thanks to “The Intercept” I now have an explanation for why Benjamin Netanyahu has opposed the Iran Nuclear Treaty, which is working great.  

Nearly all of Israel’s enemies have been neutralized, often with American help. Egypt is okay. Jordan is fine. Syria no longer exists. Iraq is barely functioning. That leaves Iran. 

President Obama’s goal was to ease America out of the Middle East, no longer vital to our interests, and turn our attention to the Far East, where everyone is educated and works hard as hell and doesn’t suffer from religious mania. Obama wanted trade treaties with the Far East.  A nuclear treaty with Iran would provide a nice exit from the Middle East, if it worked. It did work.

Netanyahu feels safer if he has the American hammer to pound the nations around him, so no matter how much money Obama gave him for arms and so on, Netanyahu did everything he could—openly—to defeat the Democratic Party and the Iran treaty. The fact that the treaty worked and Iran gave up on building a nuclear weapon is beside the point. Netanyahu’s goal is to keep both hands on that American hammer. He wants us to fight Iran for him.

Trump (the Chump) will do whatever Netanyahu wants. His people keep telling him that Iran is living up to the treaty, and he keeps saying the opposite, based on nothing. In fact, Trump is the one who has violated the treaty. Iran gave up its quest for nuclear weapons in exchange for access to European and American markets. That was the trade. Trump is now going around asking the Europeans to stop trading with Iran. That breaks the agreement. (My guess is that the Europeans aren’t obeying Trump, because he’s obviously nutty).