What Reagan understood about diplomacy that Obama doesn’t – The nuclear deal may sustain Iran. | The Washington Post

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In defense of the Iran deal, President Obama and some of his supporters have suddenly become partisans of Ronald Reagan. “Where I completely admire him,” the president told Thomas L. Friedman, “was his recognition that if you were able to verify an agreement . . . with the evil empire,” then it was worth doing. My Post colleague E.J. Dionne invoked what he called “a combination of Reaganite practicality and Reaganite hopefulness” in support of Obama’s bargain….

What Reagan understood about diplomacy that Obama doesn’t – The nuclear deal may sustain Iran. | The Washington Post

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"...Obama has strongly resisted Reagan’s methods. He has starved Syrian rebel forces of the arms and training they seek to defeat Iran’s closest ally. He declined to speak up for Iran’s domestic opposition even when it staged a street rebellion against the regime in 2009. He has never attempted to secure Iranian compliance with human rights norms, as did Cold War treaties with the Soviet Union. At his news conference last Wednesday, he coldly described the possibility of a strengthened Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy army in Syria and Lebanon, as an acceptable tradeoff for the nuclear deal...."

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