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MOU DOOMED TO FAIL, BUT HORMUZ IS OPEN (Sort Of) — Ken’s Thought of the Week
No one could have imagined that US President Trump, who launched a war against the fanatically genocidal Shiite regime in Iran, would end the war with such a bad Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), validating his own 2020 remark, “Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation”.
The war that began in 1979, culminated with the powerful 38-day kinetic attacks, led by the US in coordination with its ally Israel. these attacks that jointly destroyed some 25,000 Iranian military targets. However, short of two more weeks of bombing the remaining 5,000 military targets, the President, who prides himself on his Art of the Deal, suddenly stopped the war and switched to dealing with the terrorist regime diplomatically.
After 70 days of constant Iranian violations of the cease-fire, he signed an MOU to “end” the war, during a spectacular dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. It was in this hall, in 1919, where the Treaty of Versailles that failed to curb German belligerence was signed. And it was here in 2006 that the MOU was signed electronically by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
But why did the man, who for decades has prided himself on his “Art of the Deal”, fare so poorly in dealing with the radical Shiite regime?
We have a few guesses:
1) President Trump worried that his falling poll numbers were caused by the public’s unawareness of the existential threat of a nuclear Iran to America and the world.
2) President Trump wants the Strait of Hormuz open to all maritime commercial traffic to keep down the price of oil and gasoline, which would lower inflation and interest rates in time for the midterm election in the US.
3) President Trump realized that, unlike dictatorships (such as the Islamic Republic of Iran), democracies like America do not have the patience to fight long wars.
Thus, the President sent his negotiators, representing American democracy, to reach a compromise with the genocidal Iranian regime, whose ideology and public strategy dictate non-compromise. So, it should not be surprising that the 14-point MOU they produced is overwhelmingly favorable to Iran.
This MOU has seven major disastrous problems:
1) It could be unconstitutional: The President has a constitutional responsibility to protect the US from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The Islamic Republic of Iran is an Islamo-Nazi death cult whose official policy for the past 47 years has been to destroy America (Death to America) and Israel (Death to Israel). There is no evidence that the regime has changed its ideology or strategy. Moreover, there is more than ample evidence that the regime cannot be trusted to comply with the agreement.
2) It could be illegal: This potential deal could be illegal because it provides financing to the officially designated terrorist Iran and its proxies. Any financing and investments directly or indirectly from the U.S. would make America the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
3) It is clearly immoral: This potential deal, reportedly, ignores the wishes of some 85% of Iran’s population. It jeopardizes the neighboring Sunni Muslim countries and Israel, as President Trump has until yesterday warned time and again.
4) It is destabilizing to Western Civilization: All American allies in the world will become increasingly vulnerable to their enemies, who will feel emboldened by the unreliability of American security guarantees.
5) It violates the core philosophies that President Trump vowed to protect: The President vowed never to sign a bad deal, yet he signed this very bad MOU with Iran. President Trump reassured the Iranian people, “help is on the way”. But this MOU does nothing to protect the long-suffering Iranian people. He also promised the American people that the US will “win, win, win!” so often that they “will get tired of winning.” This MOU deal is anything but a win. Moreover, President Trump has many times promised to not get involved with endless wars, but this MOU guarantees endless war with Iran and all other radical Islamic terrorist states and organizations.
6) It undermines the Republican Party in the long-term, well after the short-term benefits of lower oil prices recede, as it dooms America to endless war.
7) It undermines President Trump’s own legacy as the best American President in modern history. Historians will compare him to Neville Chamberlain rather than Winston Churchill, and to the failings of President Obama rather than the successes of President Reagan.
If the past is any indication, there is hope that the fanatical Shiite Iranian criminal regime and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will continually violate the agreement, as witnessed during the recent so-called cease-fire, leaving President Trump no choice but to make good of his promise “to bomb the hell out of them”. This would revoke the best deal the regime could have dreamed of and avert the nightmare that this worst-ever US deal guarantees to America and the rest of the civilized world.
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