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The Middle East Democrat Senator Menendez has been extremely critical of this president’s Iran “negotiating” policy.  As with all his other “negotiations,” the other side comes out ahead – they just get more time to shorten the breakout time for nuclear capability.  Now Congress is going forward with a bill to ratchet up sanctions against Iran if yet another "deadline" slips -- kicking the can down the road is what Obama does best. Obama says the bill will be harmful to negotiations, and he'll veto it.  There may be enough non-Kool-Aid-drinking Democrats to override his veto. Krauthammer on Iran’s growing dominance of the Arab world:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-irans-emerging-empire/2015/01/22/c3098336-a269-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html?wprss=rss_charles-krauthammer And here’s an even bleaker picture of the Arab world, painted by a Lebanese intellectual:  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/char...