Too Bad President Obama Didn't Talk With Uncle Oscar

A guy, we'll call Uncle Oscar, promised his troubled nephew--the one that's been a problem child from day one--that if he toed the line, he'd buy him a new car.  This nephew of his has always been a "problem child." As a young kid, he would bully the other kindergartners out of their candy; in the fourth grade, he stole his teacher's purse; at age 14 he robbed an elderly man, and last year, he broke into three homes in the neighborhood. But despite his awful behavior, he's been lucky. He keeps getting slapped on the wrist for his behavior--he's never even been to a youth detention center. Uncle Oscar, like everyone else in the family felt that it was just a matter of time before this kid's actions would either land him in prison, cause serious harm to someone, or worse.

So, Uncle Oscar, believing that he had a way to change the boy, offered his nephew an incentive that most everyone thought was not only unbelievably generous, but unwise.  Uncle Oscar told his nephew "If you'll behave yourself, I'll give you the keys to a new car".  A few weeks passed and Uncle Oscar learned that his nephew hadn't been behaving.  He joined a gang, hadn't been to school
in a couple of weeks and was not only smoking pot, but was selling it too.  With no change in the boy's behavior, it seemed obvious that the order for his new car would be cancelled.  But what does Uncle Oscar do? He buys his nephew a brand new car!

This caused quite a stir among the family. Some felt that Uncle Oscar's decision to reward the boy was misguided, and that once again, there would be no consequences for the kid's bad behavior. Others felt that Uncle Oscar was just trying a different approach to a long-standing problem, but should have held out on the car until he saw some improvements in the boy's behavior. There were also family members that became upset with the rest of the family for criticizing Uncle Oscar's actions. They adored Uncle Oscar and were infuriated that the others felt the need to criticize him, regardless of the situation.

Days later, Uncle Oscar got a visit from his nephew.  The boy told him that it was a pretty stupid thing to give him a car without any money, knowing that he'd need to keep gas in the tank. Uncle Oscar was shocked and hurt by this, but decided to give his nephew $1,000.00. Uncle Oscar asked his nephew why he was treating him this way?  His nephew laughed and replied, "why not"?

Is there anyone that believes the nephew should have been rewarded, especially when he never changed his behavior?  I seriously doubt it.  But when you think about it, there are lots of similarities between the situation with Uncle Oscar and his nephew and President Obama and Iran.

• Iran has no plans to stop sponsoring terrorism. Both President Obama and US National Security Advisor Susan Rice acknowledge this.
• With sanctions lifted and the proposed sanction relief, Iran's economy will be injected with about $150 billion dollars. Some of the money will go to reviving their crippled economy, but you can bet some will also go to terrorists organizations. Rice says we should also expect that some of that money will be used to bolster Iran's military.
• Iran is still holding Americans hostage.  The deal made no mention of their release.
• Both China and Russia will be allowed to sell advanced weapons and technology to Iran.
• As for those unfettered inspections that President Obama promised, apparently Iran didn't like that. The deal allows Iran to deny inspections of any site, and, the denial must be adjudicated by a committee on which Iran sits.  From there it goes before several other bodies--Iran sits on all of them. Even if inspection requests were approved, the process could take up to 24 days!
• It's very unlikely that Iran will stop building their nukes, but if they should, the deal calls for them go give their plutonium--a key element for making nukes--to Russia.

There's one more similarity...after getting the car, the nephew laughs at Uncle Oscar and mocks him. Just a couple of days after the deal (which must still go before Congress) here's what Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei had to say:

"Whether the deal is approved or disapproved, we will never stop supporting our friends in the region and the people of Palestine (Hamas), Yemen (Al Qadea), Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon.  Even after this deal our policy toward the arrogant U.S. will not change."