The Democrats’ Magical Thinking Redux: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Appeasement

“…One of the most fascinating aspects of the Democratic Party is its penchant for magical thinking. Indeed, when discussing their Leftist foreign policy, it makes more sense for one to translate the word “diplomacy” as “magic.” Nowhere is the Democrats’ magical thinking more readily apparent than in their lust to negotiate a deal with the Iranian regime over the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Appeasement” – oops, “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”, the goal of which is to ensure Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful.

Four elementary questions exemplify the Democrats’ magical foreign policy and that of some of its cohorts in the P5+1 regarding the Iranian nuke pact.

First, Iran claims its nuclear program is peaceful, and it has no intention of building a nuclear weapon. So, why is the JCPOA necessary?

Hmmm…. This is a tough one. After all, negotiations require trust between the parties, namely Iran and the P5+1 – the U.K., France, Germany, the European Union, communist China, and Putin’s Russia. Trust isn’t the first virtue that springs to mind when examining the relations between the members of the negotiating team’s roster. (More on that, below.) And honesty sure isn’t the forte of the Iranian regime.

Enter Democrats’ magical thinking: Iran is simply staking out a negotiating position, one born of long years of defending itself against the U.S.’ provocations. Once the deal is signed, Iran will be secure and free to be honest in its diplomatic dealings.

True, they will also be secure and free enough to continue dissembling about what nukes they may or may not have, because in the Democrats’ feckless frenzy for a deal there won’t be incorporated thorough inspections of the regime’s nuclear facilities and program.  This will lead Saudi Arabia and other nations in the region to commence their own pursuit of nuclear weapons.  And, our ally Israel will face the greatest threat to their survival from a murderous regime whose state goal is the destruction of the Jewish state and its citizens.

Secondly, Iran is the acknowledged number one exporter of terrorism throughout the world.  It already feels secure enough to demand “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”; fire missiles at American troops; threaten to assassinate American leaders, etc.  Why does dropping sanctions on this terrorist regime facilitate anything but more terrorism and fuel their quest for nuclear weapons (which, by the nuke pact’s very existence, the P5+1 believes is the goal)?  This is an especially pertinent consideration since the nuke pact does not address Iran’s terrorist exportation and long-range missile capacity.

Here, the Democrats’ magical thinking becomes even more strained: If you oppose the Iranian nuke pact, you support war with Iran.  First performed by the illusionist Ben Rhodes, the trick here is to – voila! – turn those with reasonable concerns about and/or opposition to the Iran pact into war mongers; turning the heinous Iranian regime that is busy exporting terror and firing missiles at people into the pacific victims of an imperialism; and making Neville Chamberlain appear a hard-nosed realist…”