By Rich Kozlovich
This "deal" Trump has negotiated is being lauded and touted as something great. Let the oil flow, ships can now start their engines, the world is safe now. It's being lauded as if it's going to stand the test of time. I think that might be just a bit premature.
As General Flynn has publicly taken the position:
“The regime in Iran is lying to you and your negotiators. Period, stop. Do not believe a word they say.”........... "General Flynn got it right. The Iranian negotiators were playing out a lesson taught by Mohammed himself. What the Iranians have been doing is engaging in the Islamic practice of hudna, the practice of calling for a truce while preparing for war."
Iran will not honor any agreement any more than did the Barbary pirates in the early 1800's. They cut a deal and then things changed, they renege because that's Islam. What's worse is Trump gave the impression to the civilian population of Iran he was going to take out this regime:
.....Trump told the Iranians, who were still demonstrating in the street by the tens of thousands, “Help is on the way”. But help did not come, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the multi-service primary force of the Iranian Armed Forces that is now thought to be running the country with an iron fist, murdered nearly forty thousand demonstrators and publicly executed many more, imprisoning and torturing others with extraordinary cruelty.
Thousands rose up and thousands were executed. Iranians face a reign of terror, and it's not going to stop with this agreement. As far as I can tell, this agreement doesn't require Iran to stop murdering their people, nor can it prevent it. And if it did, it wouldn't be enforceable. As it turns out this deal is already starting to unravel and it's not even in effect yet.
No nukes and no money? Right, but what about the billions in ‘humanitarian aid’. Of course those billions can only be used for humanitarian purposes, just like the billions Obama/Biden gave to Iran. In the past it appears that humanitarian aid in Iran meant supplying arms to terrorists organizations, but they'll be good this time. Right? Does anyone besides me find his abandonment of Lebanon troubling? And does it appear to anyone besides me his reasoning is very similar to the Islam/leftist rhetoric we've seen so often?
In spite of his "promises" to the Iranian people what he really wanted wasn't the elimination of a terror sponsoring regime, his plan was for a universal Abraham Accords in the Middle East, creating a binding economic environment that would overcome Iran's form of Islamic ideology. That's delusional.
With the views expressed by his son-in-law and Steven Witkoff I wondered why they were involved in the negotiations. Now we know. But his real goal.... at least it seems to me .......... is his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. You know, the one awarded to Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama.
History is the touchstone of truth and the creator of long term vision because the patterns of life repeat over and over again, people will be people, and Islam will never be a fit partner with western civilization. That's history and that history is incontestable. It appears Trump doesn't read history books.
