Some Questions:
1. Could we scrap the deal and keep the sanctions on? The sanctions are an international matter, to bite, all countries have to apply them. If a few big countries decide to drop sanctions, the Iranians can do business with them and everything works for Iran. How does the rest of the world feel about keeping sanctions going? Remembering that every country is full of business people who want to do business with an oil rich country that can afford to pay its bills.
2. Given some softness in the mood for sanctions, does "snap back" work? Who decides when they are cheating? Us? Some ad hoc committee? With Iranians on the committee? If whoever calls for snap back, will it happen?
3. The Iranians really really want a bomb. Probably they view it as insurance against us doing regime change on them. Does a "treaty" make much difference in the face of such a threat to the regime's very existence? Can anything short of ground invasion and occupation stop their drive for the bomb?
4. International treaties require the advice and consent of the senate to go into effect. How can Obama threaten to veto advice and consent? Some newsies are saying that this deal isn't a treaty, how does that work really? If it's something magical and not-a-treaty, does it really bind the US to anything? Cannot a future administration repudiate it?
It would be nice if the newsies could enlighten us on any of this.
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