This week in politics didn’t start off very well, and it’s
been going downhill ever since. Instead of pats on the back and long-winded
toasts to U.S. diplomats for successfully concluding nuclear talks with Iran
with better-than-expected concessions from that country, we are treated to the
wailing and braying of conservatives who are comparing Obama to Neville
Chamberlain (He's also often compared to Hitler, so please make up your minds, haters).
The comparison is wrong on several counts, but Chamberlain’s
concessions to Hitler are considered to be the first step in Hitler’s march to
war with Europe. So are conservatives worrying that this agreement will
eventually lead to war? That would be rich because they have proposed no other
alternative to diplomacy except bombing Iran, an act of aggression that would
probably lead to war.
Of course we all know that much of their caterwauling has
less to do with Iran than it does with Obama himself. Any victory for the
President, no matter how big or how small, is guaranteed to send conservatives
into an apoplectic frenzy of condemnation. If Barack done it, we’re agin’ it. Obama
hatred runs deep through the veins of Republicans and, as we’ve learned over
the past six years, there is no antidote.
Those who are condemning the agreement with Iran have
absolutely nothing constructive to offer in its place except violence. Some of
these people are running for President of the United States. I’m reminded of
John McCain’s psychotic episode during a speech when he sang “Bomb, bomb, bomb,
bomb Iran” to the tune of the Beach Boys “Barbara Ann.” This is the bomb first,
ask questions later mentality of today’s Republican’s. None of them should be
allowed anywhere near the White House.
