ST Alpha - "That's just silly. They don't need us to undermine it if they intend to anyway. Either side can always tear up a deal. That's why there are " (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 154

In response to "For starters, if they were planning on tearing it up in a couple years anyway. -- nm" by Ender

That's just silly. They don't need us to undermine it if they intend to anyway. Either side can always tear up a deal. That's why there are

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Mar 9 '15, 09:06

benchmarks and verifications that are a part of the deal. But if Iran thinks we won't hold up our end, they have no incentive to do the deal. At least not until 2016 (when all momentum will be lost and we could be facing new huge problems from an Israeli strike). This is just flat out stupid policy by Republicans.

Responses:

For the record, my "they" was in reference to the Iranians. -- nm - Ender Mar 9, 09:21 1
- I got that. It doesn't change my answer. Whether they are planning on tearing it up later has nothing to do with whether we can't hold up our end. - pmb Mar 9, 09:22

Post a message top

That's just silly. They don't need us to undermine it if they intend to anyway. Either side can always tear up a deal. That's why there are

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.