How to Fix the Democratic Party
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[Note: Bernie Sanders, as a proper politician, calls *rump by his proper title and name. The transcriptionist, however, cannot bring herself to type *rump’s name, giving him that smidgen of added legitimacy! Also, emphasis is that of the transcriptionist.]
By reimposing nuclear sanctions on Iran and withdrawing from the joint comprehensive plan of action otherwise known as the Iran
nuclear agreement, *resident *rump has put our nation on a dangerous path. We should understand that the JCPOA is not just an agreement between the United States and Iran, but one negotiated alongside other members of the international community including the United Kingdom, France and Germany, along with China and Russia. The
United Nations Security Council also endorsed it. *rump's decision isolates the United States from our most important European allies who all continue to support the agreement and have consistently said that it is in their own national security interests to see it upheld. With today's announcement, *resident *rump has also ignored the public statements of his own national security officials, like Joint Chiefs Chairman Dunford and Defense Secretary Mattis, both of whom have repeatedly said that staying in the agreement is in the national security interests of the United States. This agreement is supported by an overwhelming consensus of national security experts around the world, and I would note that includes Israel. Last month, 26 former top-ranking Israeli military and security officials signed a letter urging the United States to maintain the agreement, stating unequivocally that the deal is working and that a U.S. decision to pull out would undermine not just U.S. security, but Israel's security, as well. These Israeli security leaders wrote, and I quote, "the consensus among military and intelligence agencies around the world, including Israel's own defense community is that the pact is working; Israel's security interests would be served best if the United States chooses to remain in the agreement and work with allies and other parties to the agreement on further diplomatic actions to address other aspects of Iranian policy in the Middle East". Withdrawing from the agreement could not only free Iran from the limits placed on its nuclear program, it would seriously harm the United States' ability to negotiate future nonproliferation agreements, such as one with North Korea. Why would any country in the world sign such an agreement with the United States and make the necessary concessions if they thought that a reckless president might simply discard that agreement a few years later? If we are genuinely concerned with Iran's behavior in the region, as I am, this is the worst possible course of action. It will
make addressing all of these other problems much more difficult. Unfortunately, I heard no strategy from *resident *rump today, just the usual bluster. But bluster and Iran bashing will not get us to a better future. Ultimately, we must seek a better relationship with the Iranian people and a more constructive role for Iran in the region. *rump's bellicose rhetoric today makes achieving those goals more difficult. It will strengthen the regime's hard liners, who are much more comfortable dealing with a hostile America than with a reasonable peace-seeking one. After 17 years of war in Afghanistan, after 15 years of war in Iraq, the American people do not want to be engaged in never-ending wars in the Middle East. I am deeply concerned that that is exactly where *resident *rump is taking us with regard to Iran. And for anyone who tries to dismiss those concerns, I would remind you that his newly installed national security advisor, John Bolton, wrote an article a few years entitled, and I quote, "to stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran". Now Donald *rump seems to be creating his own excuse for doing exactly that. Importantly, I would remind my fellow Americans that the road to war in Iraq did not simply begin in 2003. It was laid down brick by brick over a number of years with policy decisions that might have seemed relatively small at the time but that ultimately led us to the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of our country. The Iraq war has had enormous unintended consequences that we are still dealing with today and will be dealing with for many years to come. Indeed, one of those unintended consequences was the empowering of Iran in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. It is folly to imagine that, having unleashed these problems through the misuse of military force, that we can solve them in the same way. Real
American leadership and real American power is not shown by our ability to blow things up, but by our ability to bring parties together, to forge international consensus around shared problems, and then to mobilize that consensus to address those problems. That is what this agreement did. Unfortunately today, *resident *rump put us on a very different, more dangerous path. Thank you very much.
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Transcript courtesy of elenacarlena:
“Imagine that... you are repeatedly questioned about your political views, accused of disloyalty.... The phenomenon known as McCarthyism destroyed thousands of lives and careers.... When the Cold War escalated... domestic communism came to be seen as a threat to national security. But the attempt to eliminate that threat soon turned into the longest-lasting and most widespread episode of political repression in American history. Spurred on by a network of bureaucrats, politicians, journalists and businessmen, the campaign wildly exaggerated the danger of communist subversion. The people behind it harassed anyone suspected of holding left-of-center political views or associating with those who did. If you hung modern art on your walls, had a multiracial social circle, or signed petitions against nuclear weapons, you might just have been a communist.... The narrow criteria that Hoover and his allies used to screen federal employees spread to the rest of the country. Soon... thousands of other public and private employers were imposing the same political tests on the men and women who worked for them.... Ambitious politicians... used such hearings as a partisan weapon, accusing Democrats of being soft on communism.... McCarthy's recklessness increased. It was his investigation of the Army that finally turned public opinion against him and diminished his power.... McCarthyism... had ruined hundreds if not thousands of lives and drastically narrowed the American political spectrum.... In all likelihood, there were both Democrats and Republicans who knew that the anti-communist purges were deeply unjust, but feared that directly opposing them would hurt their careers. Even the Supreme Court failed to stop the witch hunt, condoning serious violations of Constitutional rights in the name of national security.... If new demagogues appeared in uncertain times to attack unpopular minorities in the name of patriotism, could it all happen again?”
Quite interesting, particularly the extensive efforts to maintain control of the Party in order to perpetuate the operationally discredited policies of the past, even now.
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