Virtually everyone is missing the point with regard to the open letter to the leaders of Iran signed by 47 Republican Senators.\u00a0 Democrats responded quickly by literally accusing Republicans of treason. Actually, if you want an example of treason look at John Kerry\u2019s visit to Paris to meet with our enemies during the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Or check out Ted Kennedy communicating with leaders in the Soviet Union to block Ronald Reagan from negotiating a nuclear weapons treaty.\u00a0 That is what treason looks like.\u00a0 The letter may or may have not been a great idea from a political standpoint, but it is absurd to call it treason.<\/p>\n
But ultimately none of that even matters.\u00a0 The important thing is that, once again, the Obama administration failed to even recognize an opportunity.\u00a0 Anyone who has ever watched a police show knows the good cop, bad cop routine.\u00a0 The bad cop acts like an out of control maniac.\u00a0 The good cop intervenes and offers to help.\u00a0 The good cop is far more dangerous for the suspect than the bad cop.\u00a0 We see this technique all the time because police use it all the time.\u00a0 Police use it all the time because it works.<\/p>\n
That letter set up the Obama administration to use the \u201cgood cop, bad cop routine.\u201d\u00a0 They could have used it during negotiations with Iran by pointing out that Obama had to sell any deal to a skeptical congress or it wasn\u2019t worth the paper it was written on.\u00a0 He could have done that, but instead he was too self-absorbed to notice or too arrogant to care.\u00a0 Instead of using the letter as leverage, Obama hysterically tried to pretend that congress doesn\u2019t even exist.\u00a0 So, instead of good cop, bad cop, we ended up with dumb cop.<\/p>\n
This would almost be funny, except that this unforced error has the potential to set up a nuclear holocaust.\u00a0 The dumb cop is not very amusing when there is this much at stake.<\/p>\n
TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Virtually everyone is missing the point with regard to the open letter to the leaders of Iran signed by 47 Republican Senators.\u00a0 Democrats responded quickly by literally accusing Republicans of treason. Actually, if you want an example of treason look … Continue reading