Unraveling the axis of stupid: How Iran deal sends neocons, exceptionalists and Fox News xenophobes

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Unraveling the axis of stupid: How Iran deal sends neocons, exceptionalists and Fox News xenophobes to dustbin of history

by Patrick L. Smith at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/22/unraveling_the_axis_of_stupid_how_iran_deal_sends_neocons_exceptionalists_and_fox_news_xenophobes_to_dustbin_of_history/

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It is. In my view, the warmongers, exceptionalists, xenophobes and shameful creatures of AIPAC are going to look like the Light Brigade as they charge at the administration intent on destroying this agreement. Into the Valley of Death ride they. This, indeed, will be a delightful defeat to watch, in the best outcome a massacre.

The political calculus in this is already plain and does not seem arguable. On Monday the U.N. Security Council’s 15 members voted unanimously to begin lifting economic sanctions against Iran in 90 days—in effect endorsing the Vienna document. Even the ever-hawkish Samantha Power, obviously under White House orders, approved the resolution.

By the time the Security Council resolution passed, the European Union had already voted to back the accord and begin lifting some—not all—of the three sets of sanctions in place against Iran since 2006. As to Russia and China, they were both members of the P5 + 1 group of negotiators who sat at the mahogany table facing Iran; their position on this deal is beyond doubt.

Look at the lineup. Scuttling this accord—even trying to scuttle it—puts rightist American legislators against virtually all major powers and, I am confident, all secondary and minor powers, never mind “virtually.” Only Israel and the Saudis now stand against the achievement shared by P5 + 1 and Iran.



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1. The vast majority of cons against this are against it solely because Obama accomplished it

This includes all teaparty rank and file and in the house and senate.

They dont know the first thing about the details or any of that, what they know is Black president accomplished it, along with hundreds of other accomplishments, and this makes them very angry

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2. And the Saudis will loose billions when Iran is allowed to sell

more oil.