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“Peace in Our Time(?),” Big Government, Incompetence & Mandela

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The Iranian Deal – “Peace in Our Time?” Obama declared the nuclear inspection & sanctions relaxation deal with Iran a “new path ... a prelude to a comprehensive agreement.”  It’s supposed to put their nuclear weapons development on hold, and buy us time.  Which sounds eerily similar to Neville Chamberlain’s “Peace in our time” when he returned from Munich just prior to WWII.  And so, once again, this administration’s “solution” is to kick the can down the road – 6 months.  It’s a “first step” – a freeze – to dismantling.  And first steps – stage one thinking – is about as far as this administration, and the Democrats in general, seem able to go as far as any real results on anything.  All it does is relax sanctions, freeing up billions of dollars in their frozen assets, allowing them to rebuild their economy, removing political pressure to eliminate nuclear weapons production capabilities and pulling the rug out from any internal pressures for reform.  It is