Our paradigm of short term thinking...

"An old expression in the Middle East - 'you may have the clocks, but we have the time...'"

If this is not a classic example on how we operate these days, I don't know what is. We don't play the long game anymore. It is all short game. And the Iran nuke deal is a perfect example. Actually, there are two things which are wrong with it. First, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, there is a huge trust factor. Bebe knows the Iranians will cheat. He takes the Iranian leadership at their word when they say they will incinerate Israel the first chance they get.

The second thing which is much more disturbing is the deal itself. As time has gone on, more and more aspects of the deal are slipping out. I will agree with our two Senators on one thing - this is a hot deal. Where I will disagree with them is this one point - a hot deal for whom? How they could read the details of this POS and think it will garner peace in the Middle East somehow escapes me. The only reason our two lemmings could support this deal is because they are tools of the Administration. Rubber stamps. Like the 60th vote on ObamaCare for example.

Let me be specific. Right off the bat, this POS deal will give the Iranians a boatload of money. This will allow them funnel many more arms to terror states they support. Also, all the crippling sanctions are being lifted. That means even more money coming in. And viable inspections? Forgetaboutit! But the big, and I mean big, prize will happen in a decade or so. We are going to let the Iranians have everything it takes to build a nuke or nukes. So even if they don't cheat (and very few think they will not), a nuclear future for Iran is in the cards.

Now I get to my premise of this article. Just about everything we do these days is based on the short game. We will worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Our energy grid, our energy policy, our depleting ground water, our economy, our just about everything. The fact the Iranians will get a nuke in ten years or so, well, we will worry about that in nine years or so. However, that myopic view is not held by Israel. Nor Iran's Sunni neighbors. To them, they see this deal as it is - a catastrophe waiting to happen. 

So the beat goes on. The snake oil salesmen continue to sell a deal the Iranians love and many in this country hate. As bad as the Clinton deal was with the North Koreans (which gave the Norks their nukes), this deal is much worse. Much, much worse. And why would we negotiate such a POS deal? Now that, is the question historians will wrestle with for years to come.