As we've seen, there has been lots of contention between President Obama and Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, mostly over the issue of the Iranian nuclear deal. It if weren't for the fact that the nuke deal is so serious, and has the potential for such far-reaching implications, it would actually be quite entertaining watching these two.
President Obama's deal with Iran is the best we could do, because any deal is better than no deal at all--at least according to President Obama. But Netanyahu maintains that no deal is better than any deal, especially this one, which Congress has a little over a month to vote on. Since the signing of the premliminary agreement, we've learned several things about the deal, and none of them are very good. Clearly, all of this wrangling over nukes and Iran has intensified the friction between Obama and Netanyahu. It's also clear that President Obama is feeling...well, maybe a little guilty about this deal. It's only a hunch I have, but why else would President Obama release Jonathan Pollard (he's scheduled for parole in November), a man who is alternately called the biggest spy in U.S. history or the worst traitor in modern history? Either way, his dasterdly deeds were of historical proportion.
Pollard, if you'll recall, is the former anaylst in the U.S. Navy's Anti-Terroist Alert Center, who was
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
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