Did Obama Succeed With The Iranian Nuclear Agreement? What About Syria?

Iran will have to dismantle and halt a significant part of their nuclear program within six months. This is a victory for America and for our allies, but you wouldn't know it if you listened to the Iranian officials.


The six month timeline is both an element of the negotiation and an acceptance of our total lack of trust in Iran.  In the journey to make America safe by making the world safer, are we falling down on the job?  Let John McCain tell it, Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter.

Before Iran, there was the Syrian issue that McCain is referring to. Obama chose to spray the blood of the Syrian decision all over congress by testing them for congressional approval before taking military action as other presidents have done in the past.  Congress had cold feet too.

Barack Obama has done the absolute next best thing that you can do when you declare to the world that you have cold feet to war. We have functionally declared to all of our enemies that this is a great time to test our limits and spread your wings a bit (which explains the al Qaeda resurgence).  Is Iran really content with the victory that they are claiming over Obama or is this simple political rhetoric?  Here's the CNN report on this one.

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(CNN) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted Wednesday that the Obama administration mis-characterizes concessions by his side in the six-month nuclear deal with Iran, telling CNN in an exclusive interview that "we did not agree to dismantle anything."

To me the question is laughable.  Zarif has to ease sanctions without losing control over a politically volatile nation.  How do you satisfy the skepticism of Americans who insisted on longer, tougher, harder sanctions without sacrificing your own image at home?  There is simply not much Zarif could have said differently and there should be no one who expected otherwise.  As white house press secretary Jay Carney declared "we are much more interested in what they do......"

Carney is right, but I  almost agree with John McCain.  Despite his back handed compliment of Jimmy Carter, Carter was our best international relations president in modern history and none of those who followed, including Obama, accomplished more in this area. The stock market and our entire way of life changes when our enemies discover how to bring the war to America's soil like 9-11.  Sometimes you must negotiate with your enemy (Iran) and other times you must insist that they realize where the line is drawn (Syria).

Barack Obama has failed America in part because he verbalized our weariness.Our military action against Syria needed to be for the sake of humanity at large and even Russia must be made to realize where society will draw the line. 
 

To Obama's credit, he declared that he would act without congress, causing Russia to force Syria to give up the weapons.  Yet, have we uncovered them all, and will those who did these crimes against humanity  be prosecuted accordingly?   Our role in the world should be as the negotiator until the hour of negotiation has passed.  Within a righteous nation, war should never be a choice, but the responsibility of privilege.