I Wouldn't Want Scott Walker Running My Company Much Less the United States of America...

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Following is an excerpt from The Washington Post regarding Governor Walker's view of negotiations and any deal with Iran on nuclear capabilities. Walker, like most potential republican presidential hopefuls have taken a hard line against a deal with Iran. In the case of Walker's following statement one can only classify it as a typical knee jerk reaction from the typical agenda driven neo con and or Tea Party member.

Walker had previously said that he would undo any deal with Iran on his first day. But radio host Charlie Sykes asked him a good follow-up question, and this happened:

SYKES: You have said that you would cancel any Iranian deal the Obama administration makes. Now would you cancel that even if our trading partners did not want to reimpose the sanctions?

WALKER: Absolutely. If I ultimately choose to run, and if I’m honored to be elected by the people of this country, I will pull back on that on January 20, 2017, because the last thing — not just for the region but for this world — we need is a nuclear-armed Iran. It leaves not only problems for Israel, because they want to annihilate Israel, it leaves the problems in the sense that the Saudis, the Jordanians and others are gonna want to have access to their own nuclear weapons…


In this scenario, of course, the European countries would still see continuing the deal as the best way to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. But that wouldn’t matter — Walker would pull the U.S. out of the deal, anyway. I asked Peter Juul, a Mideast analyst for the Center for American Progress, to explain what the consequences of that might be. He told me:

“The big questions would be, How would Europeans and Iranians react? It’s hard to believe that the Iranians would stick to their end of the deal. That would leave Iran open to take their nuclear program as far as they want.

“The Europeans would probably try to keep their portion of the deal in place and try to salvage it. This would place the burden of having blown up the deal on us. This would be particularly ironic, considering that a major Republican and conservative talking point is that the Obama administration is breaking faith with our allies. We would be alienating and breaking faith with our European allies right out of the gate. You’d be irreparably damaging our transatlantic relationships for however long Scott Walker were in office.

“Putin is not going to leave power anytime soon, unless he keels over. For all the talk about the Russian threat, it would be odd to throw our European allies under the bus on Iran at the same time they are facing down a Russia that is not particularly friendly.

“There would be a lot of ripple effects around wherever the U.S. and Europe have security cooperation. This is a reckless, irresponsible, shoot first, don’t-ask-questions-ever approach. It’s just not a viable strategy if your goal is to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.”

Read the full article HERE.

Via: Memeorandum

Comments

  1. Here's what I don't get Les... During the Cold War, we negotiated with the USSR, even though we did not trust them, they were sworn enemies and were spying daily on us and our interests.

    In 1972, while China was arming people killing our soldiers in Vietnam, and only 20 years after they directly killed our soldiers in Korea, we negotiated with, and opened China. Do we trust the Chinese? I don;t think so.

    We did not trust either of these countries, yet we negotiated with both of them.

    In light of these facts, why are we unable to negotiate with Iran?

    God help us all if the Louis Gohmert's and Tom Cotton's get their wish and we start bombing before diplomacy has a chance to work.

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  2. We are able to negotiate with Iran Dave, and we are.

    As I see it the hard.right, including hard right libertarians, are militaristic and believe only a hard line leading to confrontation, conflict, and war is the only way to deal with adversaries.

    Obama is trusted less by the Tea Party and the republicans than is Iran. I don't understand it other than to think it's politics.

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  3. Well, all I know is I don't want to see the young people I work with sent over to die in some far off place for nothing. We should always try to find a way to avoid war if we can.

    JMJ

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    1. Agreed Jersey. War is always the last resort (or should be) and should be entered into only as a response to and act of aggression against our country and its people. Paraphrasing Ayn Rand.

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  4. JMJ... agreed... war should always be the last resort, after all else fails...

    And then, if we have made real, good faith efforts towards resolution without war, and war becomes the only last, best option, we should go to the American people, get their buy in, including a tax to pay for it, and fight to win, as we did in WWII.

    Any politician who proposes war, without a tax to pay for it, so as to protect our economy, and maybe even a draft to ensure a wide participation in the effort, should be thrown out of office.

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  5. "Any politician who proposes war, without a tax to pay for it, so as to protect our economy, and maybe even a draft to ensure a wide participation in the effort, should be thrown out of office."

    Absolutely, Dave. No more unpaid wars, and no sending other people's sons and daughters off to fight them.

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  6. Hear Hear Dave!! You may be a liberal but on this one you're certainly speaking like a responsible fiscal conservative. And yes Dave, (and Shaw) I do realize there are not all that many of those around anymore.

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