I don’t think anyone whose mind hasn’t been burned out from too many stimulants thinks we have reached peace with Iran. Most of us remember the old Soviet Union and some of us remember a time before we had an agreements with the Soviet Union. That was a very dangerous era, one in which the US was close to a real war. We went from the Cuban Missile Crisis to a test ban treaty in about a year. There is nothing like a real scare to teach people what is important.
Today we don’t have a direct fear of attack, but we have a simmering conflict that might turn into a war. Iran seems to have been developing nuclear weapons. The US wants them to stop and UN imposed sanctions have been in effect since 2006. That embargo has served to increase oil prices. As of this morning an agreement has been reached that depends on whether Congress can veto it. Congress has 60 days to approve of reject it. The Israelis reject it. Their lobbyists are trying to get enough votes to win. Most Americans forget that Iran has real issues with the US. We overthrew their government in the early 1950s and we shot down an Iranian passenger plane in 1988.
The US isn’t ready for war and war. The Israelis seem to want to attack Iran, but the US doesn’t have any rational reasons to agree. We need to remember that US foreign policy isn’t Israeli. Our Iraq adventure was a failure as was our Afghan. We need to pull back from the middle east and turn down the heat.
