Is this really a “major concession”?

No, it’s a ploy that would allow the Obama administration to back off from the sanctions while proclaiming a “victory.”

what would mittens do?

Pragmatic on April 28, 2012 at 1:38 PM

…Mitten’s would get his head to fit his ears!
(…beautiful picture!)

He doesn’t want trouble, he is starting to panic!

Unfortunately, there is a lot of hardware over there. Probably to scare the Iranians while they run their enrichment and negotiating processes simultaneously.

The “big stick” will soon be out of Dear Leader’s control and the narcissist in him will let it fly.

I don’t care how obnoxious you thought the MittShills were. And I understand the GOP Progressives are trying their level best to “scrape Christians from their shoes”. But for at least one last time Conservatives need to support the GOP candidate to get rid of who is absolutely the worst president in my lifetime.

hawkdriver on April 28, 2012 at 4:50 PM

I agree. Obama is that much of an existential threat to freedom across the world.

Progress towards a genuinely Conservative GOP (taken over from the ground up by Tea Partiers) or a separate conservative force can wait for a little while longer… November at the latest.

We need to save the country first.

In the mean time… we need more Tea Party Precinct Chiefs. Utah should be the model as to how we change the GOP from the ground up: more tea party precinct chiefs and primaries against establishment types.

But anyone who is thinking of voting for ABO needs to seriously do so. Right now ABO is Romney… so suck it up.

And if we get enough Tea Party types in Congress and Senate then maybe Romney will see the virtues of genuinely small government.

Deliver it with B-52 bombers.

I’m still in shock, but yes.

I will add that this policy makes the NPT treaty a joke, and will herald the destruction of non proliferation for the future at every level.

saus on April 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM

May as well just tear the Non-Proliferation Treaty up.

This would affirm it is unenforced, non-operative, meaningless, and dead — that it has gone the way of the League of Nations after the Japanese and Italian aggressions in the 1930s.

peace in our time!

golembythehudson on April 28, 2012 at 1:25 PM

Pretty close.

A closer parallel is what France and Germany did in the mid-1930s when they approved Hitler’s rearmament of Germany after the fact. The spineless rationalization was that Germany had the same right to the means to defend itself against aggression as any other nation.

Andy McCarthy is linked in this post, and he has a solution to stopping Obama’s riding roughshod over Congress. Do we have a Congress ready to tackle Obama?

The notion that verification or anything they commit to is some sort of acceptable result is unreal to me. This is North Korea all over again. Nothing more than buying more time for the West’s enemies.

We have made a monstrous mistake in Israel relying on the West again, a mistake of historic proportions :(

And what we are “approving” is the first necessary step or two on the way to obtaining weapons grade uranium, which the Iranians are well past.

How absurd is all that?

If the situation weren’t so serious this ridiculous ex post facto revisionist “diplomatic” charade would be a joke. I’m sure the Iranians are laughing. I doubt the Israelis are.

If the Iranians and the world still had any doubts that Obama is weak and impotent this should remove all doubt. There should be no doubt in Israel’s mind they are on their own. And I expect the coalition we formed to impose sanctions on Iran to start falling apart, maybe sooner and faster than anyone thought.

God help us if Obama is re-elected to run our foreign policy another four years. He could make Chamberlain and Daladier look like tough negotiators.

Talk about lazy. It isn’t as though Mitt hasn’t discussed and published his ideas.

MJBrutus on April 28, 2012 at 1:43 PM

What was his position on Iran and Nukes before 2006? I don’t really trust his personal website as a source for his views on anything, actually.

It should be easy to discern which of the two Obama foreign policy doctrines is in play, but I missed class the day they taught ‘nuance.’

Just save the negotiating time and nuke one American city as an apology to Iran for allowing 50 Americans to be taken hostage back in 79.

Of course it would need to be a city in a red state.