Any day when Marxist Eric Schneiderman vacates his office as NY State Attorney General and thereby guarantees he will never be Governor is a good one. Ollie North becoming NRA President is even better; he'll keep NRA on offense, where it belongs. We gun owners will never tolerate being blamed for outrages we did not cause and could have prevented had we been heeded. But our President repudiating Obama and Kerry's Iran Deal is incomparably sweet.
I was moved to see Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's obvious relief and gratitude at President Trump's gutsy decision. The Prime Minister's revelation last week of the products of the highly competent and credible Israeli intelligence operation, to the effect that Iran has blithely and dishonestly advanced its development of nuclear weapons, was wisely heeded. For Israel, this is a fundamental concern. They would survive an Iranian nuclear attack, they are ISRAEL after all and they would deal with Iran in a most decisive manner, but for obvious reasons they wish to prevent it. I've said it before; I think any nation's attitude toward Israel, the most beleaguered and most courageous and civilized nation on earth, is one credible measure of a nation's humanity. I rejoice that President Trump has rejected the cynical and antisemitic hostility toward Israel - openly demonstrated to and viscerally felt by the Israelis - of his Marxist predecessor and has stood with that heroic nation. Thankfully former President Obama's objections today fall on deaf ears. John F. Kerry's futile and possibly illegal efforts to preserve his obsequious bow to the mullahs bring to mind his anti American efforts in 1971, when he contributed to the Communist triumph by denouncing our military campaign against world communism in Vietnam, on the very floor of Congress. But this time he fluffed unless his intention was simply to do mischief. He is said to be considering another Presidential quest. Well! Then so am I.
Now what? I've seen Donald Trump types in action. They state their case simply and without qualification. Then they sit back and fix the gimlet eye on their often thereby discomfitted opponent. In the past, they would have lit one up and settled in. The ball is in the Mullahs' court and they have to know that this guy means what he says. They are in for yet another round of economic hardship probably even more unwelcome to the long oppressed Iranian people. That is, unless they relent in their atavistic and frankly tiresome vendetta against the modern world. Jack
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That is indeed one very eventful day! We discussed several of these issues in my most recent radio interview. On Schneiderman, I have no idea what he did or didn't do to his lady friends, but one thing is for sure: he was no friend of Trump, and no friend of the Constitution either. On Iran, I honestly don't expect much to change because of the decision on the nuclear deal. I would have thought everyone could see that coming. Will Iran ramp up its nuclear program? I doubt it, because it wants to stay on the good side of the Europeans. Will it continue to cause mischief throughout the region? Certainly. I would argue that the recent military engagements between Iran and Israel are ultimately more consequential than Trump's decision on the nuclear deal. A war could be brewing between the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia (strange bedfellows!) and Iran. And Russia? Who can say. My guess is "war" only means Allied bombing and some lame Iranian attempts to disrupt shipping in the Gulf, but time will tell.
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