Soap Box

I admire anybody who strives for peace, especially those who work to insure a peaceful future for our children and grandchildren, it is a noble calling.

When both parties bear no animosities and want to accomplish the same things, peace deals are easily forged and kept. Unfortunately, that is seldom the case and peace negations are conducted after wars with the winner of the hostilities holding all the cards and able to force their will on the loser, drawing up the terms of peace in a way that insures that the other side will abide by them or face serious consequences.

Such was the treaties America negotiated and signed with our enemies after the Second World War. Japan was not allowed to have a standing army and Germany was a divided and occupied country.

Lasting peace is not possible without the strength and the will to enforce it and a weak unenforced treaty is worse than no treaty at all because it requires at least a modicum of trust and when the signature violates the terms, without penalty, the treaty is nothing more than a ream of worthless paper.

The premise of what I call the �Obama Accords,� Obama�s recent deal with Iran, was seriously flawed from the start. There is neither equity nor adequate inspection procedures included to make sure Iran is toeing the line, there is too much trust required, trust in a nation who�s leaders condones lying to those not of their faith.

I am not blaming the situation in Iran of Obama, that debacle has been side stepped by presidents of both parties dating back to the days when, due to American strength and resolve, it would have been a fairly simple issue to deal with.

But in Obama's haste to achieve, actually I don't really understand what he was trying to achieve, anyway whatever it was, he got scalded in the deal. Instead of dealing from a position of strength, a posture the Iranians well understand and respect, Obama wore his flower child approach and give peace a chance attitude on his sleeve and the Mullahs skinned him like a cat.

So, Iran comes out of the deal with the freeing up of hundreds of billions in frozen assets and the revitalization of their oil industry, we get to inspect the sites that want us to inspect and have to take their word for the ones they don't allow us into.

John Kerry even admitted that some of the money Iran would receive in the deal would more than likely go to finance terrorist activities. That is about the most asinine thing I have ever heard come out of a diplomat's mouth and the very act of him admitting that Obama had negotiated a deal that would facilitate terrorism is unthinkable and is reason to have grave reservations about what the fine print in this treaty actually contains, what parameters it allows and if it actually means anything at all.

While Obama helps Iran to build up it's military capabilities he continues to tear down ours, reducing the size of our armed forces amid reluctance among young people to enlist and falling morale amongst those currently serving.
Trusting Iran is a naive, foolish and fatal mistake.

Obama has not assured that Iran will not have a nuclear device, but rather he has assured that they will have one. All he has done is possibly put it off for a few years, although he could have actually have hastened the day by supplying the funds they need to proceed.

We've never really known what has and is going on at Iran's Parchin facility and recent satellite photos suggest that there are things there that Iran is going to great lengths to hide.

And what of the rumored dealings between Iran and the maniac who runs North Korea, who just happened to test a long-range missile this weekend?

So, what Iran gets is a path to prosperity and military strength, expansion of their terrorist activities, and an unencumbered path to a nuclear device in a few years.

What do we get? A president with egg on his face, holding a worthless piece of paper.

Congress, you act like a bunch of freshly gilded steers, you've turned into a toothless debating society scared of the president's shadow, panting lap puppies looking for a pat on the head from the media.

You're disgusting.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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