Must-Read: It is important to remember that the austerity-forever dead-enders who dominate Republican economic policy right now are not exceptional in any way. The "global warming isn't happening" dead-enders are, rhetorically and cognitively, the same. The "ObamaCare is failing" dead-enders likewise. And the same thing is happening in security policy:
: The next GOP president won’t walk away from the Iran deal: "Now that we have a nuclear deal with Iran, Republicans are jostling each other to determine...
...who can make the most angry and apocalyptic statements about it. Scott Walker said it ‘will be remembered as one of America’s worst diplomatic failures.’ Jeb Bush called it ‘dangerous, deeply flawed, and short-sighted.’ Marco Rubio said it ‘undermines our national security.’ And as usual, Lindsey Graham wins the award for the most unhinged conclusions: the deal is ‘akin to declaring war on Sunni Arabs and Israel,’ he told Bloomberg News. He also said: ‘You’ve created a possible death sentence for Israel.’...
Let’s think for a moment about what it would mean if the next president abandoned this deal... reimposing sanctions and walking away from inspections.... The other world powers that agreed to this deal would [not] go along with either one, particularly if the new arrangement is operating as it was intended. Don’t forget that this isn’t a deal between Iran and the United States, it’s a deal between Iran, the United States, Russia, China, and Europe. The reason the current sanctions regime has crippled the Iran’s economy is that it was imposed not just by the United States but also by the United Nations.... If President Walker/Bush/Rubio/Trump walked away from the deal, it wouldn’t actually hurt Iran that much. But it would mean saying that America is no longer interested in keeping tabs on Iran’s nuclear program.... That’s a plan so stupid that it’s hard to imagine even the current GOP presidential candidates carrying it out...
