Friday, April 10, 2015

Senator Barbara Boxer is correct about the NPT agreement with Iran.

There should be a hearing to bring 40 experts that want to speak. It is important. But, this agreement was reached under President Obama and with the persist patience of Secretary John Kerry. Are there two men in the USA more disdained by the Republicans? I don't mean that as a defeat, but, these men have been so successful in their time in the White House the Republicans just can't stand it.

The voices of 40 experts would be a comfort to many in the Middle East.

There are political hens running around the barnyard trying to be 'the one' most correct about any untrustworthy behavior by the IAEA and Iran. They make a lot of noise and carry no substantial message.  

From where I sit, the noisemakers are nothing more than that and carry no brevity to the issue at all.

President Obama and Secretary Kerry have done the impossible and it was completely obvious how diligent their efforts were. If everyone outside the P5+1 was against this agreement, I still would ignore them. This is a once in a lifetime agreement. If the five permanent members of the UN Security Council constructed a document that would bring peace to the international community in any way, it is necessary to go forward. Nuclear capacity of countries is a very dangerous thing. 

Iran is giving the world a place to begin hope again in the potential of peace without nuclear weapons. Our children deserve that. But, some people outside the negotiating team wants to continue high tensions in the world. Their political advantage is based in hate, fear and war.

Is that the type of politics we want on an international scale? No country beside the USA republican Party wants it.

This is a historic document reached by the work of men dedicated to peace. We cannot turn our backs on this. Iran has to realize the brevity of this document and the potential it holds for the future of their country and peace for their people.

I think the US Senate can afford to bring those that want to register their testimony to a historic document to the Senate floor to be on the record. But, their testimony is an enhancement and not a deterrent to the final agreement in June. Let's break the log jam in the Middle East and plant the first seed of peace.