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The Art of No Deal: Iran, Trump, And the Price of Negotiating with Terrorists
By Daniel Cohen - https://harbingersdaily.com/the-art-of-no-deal-iran-trump-and-the-price-of-negotiating-with-terrorists/
One of the first things Joe Biden did after taking office was surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban. The video of an American C17 cargo plane going up with Afghans clinging to the wheel wells is going viral again this week. A suicide bomber hit immediately after that plane took off, killing 13 American servicemen and women. That really happened during the Biden administration.
The image of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal wasn’t just a foreign policy failure; it was an advertisement. It signaled to the world that America had lost its nerve. How did the world’s enemies respond? Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine just 6 months later. Iran-backed Hamas invaded Israel, slaughtering 1,200 Israelis.
You can draw a straight line from the tarmac in Kabul to every catastrophe that followed. Weakness doesn’t just invite aggression. Weakness welcomes it.
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Is What We Are Being Publicly Told About the War in Iran Different from What Is Being Planned Behind the Scenes?
Are both sides misleading us about what they intend to do? U.S. officials have been able to keep the financial markets calm by telling us that Iran is defeated and that the war will end soon, but meanwhile thousands of U.S. troops are being deployed to the Middle East and it appears that preparations are being made for a major ground operation. The Iranians have told us over and over again that they will never produce nuclear weapons, but now we have learned that the regime has come to the conclusion that “it has nothing to gain by holding back from building a bomb”. I am extremely concerned about where all of this is eventually heading if both sides just continue to escalate matters.
According to the Daily Mail, Republican members of Congress “stormed out of a classified briefing on Iran on Wednesday” because of what they were told during that meeting…
