The New Jersey Democrat laid out how the U.S. had allowed Iran to sell an estimated $10 billion worth of sanctioned oil to China and then promised to further alleviate sanctions in return for releasing highly enriched uranium and committing to limiting its enrichment capacity.
“And that was the exact deal that you guys vilified, that the president and you vilified President Obama for having,” Booker said. Of course, Donald Trump’s deal is even worse than Booker says, as it reportedly includes a $300 billion investment fund for Tehran, in the event that a deal is reached.
$10 Billion to $300 billion. ART OF THE DEAL!
The American right is all about pretending they didn’t lose. Short list of examples in cronological order:
Of course the USA lost this thing with Iran. We didn’t even state a clear goal and STILL wound up in a state where the absolute best we could hope to describe it is as a draw.
It isn’t running to the right to describe things factually. Reality, after all, has a well known left-wing bias.
And the Dems have a sordid history of trying to outdo Reps on ‘tough’ foreign policy. The lesson from the current conflict shouldn’t be: “Reps are too incompetent to win this war”, it should be: “our entire policy towards Iran (and Israel) has been a counterproductive disaster”.