On Friday, the anniversary of the worst terror attacks on American soil, the House of Representatives decisively rejected the President’s nuclear deal with Iran in a 269-162 vote.
However, despite the overwhelming vote in the House of Representatives, the United States Senate has cleared the way for this flawed agreement to move forward.
Those who support this deal are satisfied that everything will be fine — at least over the next ten years during their tenure in Congress — and, with tentativeness, hope things will eventually work out for the best in the long run.
(It sounds very similar to Neville Chamberlain’s hope that appeasement would halt Nazi Germany’s aggressiveness and avert a World War.)
That’s an awfully big — and delusional — gamble to take with an authoritarian regime that is unabashedly bent on our — and democratic Israel’s — destruction.
Because of this deal, unfortunately, it’s our children and grandchildren — American, Israeli, Iranian, and others — who will pay the ghastly cost for such egregious concessions.
Having voted for some of these “people’s representatives,” I really must express my disappointment and ask out loud to Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, Suzan DelBene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Jim McDermott, Adam Smith and Denny Heck:
Do you truly understand the peril you’re placing our sons and daughters in, as well as the world-at-large?
I fear they’ve opened the door to many more 9-11’s to come — globally.
Robert F. Smith
Lake Stevens
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