05-09-2018, 11:18 AM
(05-08-2018, 07:58 PM)Millhouse Wrote: To play devil's advocate, the deal was only going to last until 2031, which is only 13 more years. In the meantime they would have avoided sanctions which would give them a more sizable income to develop ballistic technology than they currently have. They also would have more money to support Assad in Syria, among other anti-American/Israel/Saudi factions in the region.
As I said though, we shouldn't have pulled out of it yet. Just trying to find a silver lining in it though, because ultimately that deal was nothing more than a temporary bandaid on keeping them from having nukes over a 15 year period, and not a long term solution that a treaty could have provided instead.
Both sides accepted it with the thought that they would be in a better position in 15 years.
Iran would never agree to NEVER develop nuclear weapons. Especially if all their neighbors had them in 2031.
So we take what we can get. The question is how far do we got to make them stop? Because if we can not negotiate at some point we will have to resort to military force.
