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Trump half-asses killing the Iran deal
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The Final Dakar
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Oct 16, 2017, 09:12 PM
 
Is there any point to this other than optics? He won't certify it, but they're in compliance. He's punting to congress.

Meanwhile, the US now is a deal-breaker in a respectability match with ****ing Iran. Plus, our allies will not reciprocate our actions because there is no reason to do so.

The best part: Certification was a poison pill the GOP added to make Democratic presidents look bad, but since Trump won he ended up eating their shit sandwich. This is what happens when you play politics.
     
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Oct 16, 2017, 10:04 PM
 
Hopefully Congress will do nothing, since Iran is in compliance, and Congress has a host of other battles to fight. Best case is they remove the 90-day recert condition, but I'd settle for them doing nothing. Something they're good at anyway on useful legislation.
     
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Oct 16, 2017, 11:53 PM
 
Congress doesn't have the balls. And even if they did, they know this deal is better than nothing, and they also know that sanctions are meaningless without our allies consensus.

I'm sure McCain, Graham and Cotton will talk a tough game but there's nothing to be gained here.
     
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Oct 17, 2017, 04:14 AM
 
America doesn't belong to any single Administration or session of Congress, and that's why you have to accept all the baggage that comes with it. All the wriggling results from Trump and parts of the GOP being unhappy about the Iran deal.

Unfortunately, the damage from Trump's antics is already done — it lowers the faith in the US's commitment to treaties. Iran is sticking to the deal, and the Trump Administration's criticism regarding Iran's missile tests is misleading since during the negotiations with Iran these were deliberately not made part of the agreement. The US's sanctions will have extremely little effect, because American companies have pretty much zero trade with Iran. The other parties (in particular EU countries) with whom Iran does trade are opposed to Trump's move and the new sanctions as Iran has so far fulfilled its end of the bargain.

It seems to me that Trump views every and all policy decisions solely through the domestic lens, and chooses a path forward that maximizes impact with his core constituency. And Trump either isn't aware or doesn't care (or a mixture of both) that this costs him dearly in other ways.
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