On today’s BradCast, the politicization of the Iran peace deal by Israel and the Right in the U.S. is having serious consequences for both.
Military analyst, adviser, author
and former naval commander Harlan Ullman — credited with creating the ‘Shock and Awe’ doctrine
(no Leftie peacenick, he!) — joins me to explain why he believes the Iran deal is “potentially a strategic game-changer for the positive,” and how Republicans and Israel are both wrong to oppose it.
“This agreement, if it is enforced and if it works, gives all sorts of strategic opportunities that will make the entire world safer,” he tells me. “For whatever reason, Republicans and [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu don’t want to accept that, in large part because of their hatred and disagreement with the Obama Administration.”
He believes “a more objective view needs to prevail,” but warns that the Obama needs to take special measures to ensure the deal remains enforced. (While I agree with Ullman on the issue, in general, you’ll see that there is much we do not agree about when it comes to just about everything else! So, I’m happy to find common ground with him on these points!)
Then, former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffer, turned senior Congressional staffer, turned columnist M.J. Rosenberg, joins me to discuss his recent column on the fall of the nation’s once-most powerful Jewish lobby which, after spending millions to try and defeat the Iran deal, may have succeeded only in destroying itself. He explains why he believes that AIPAC made a fatal miscalculation in turning the fight against the agreement into a partisan issue. In the process, Rosenberg says, they have severely weakened the bi-partisan power they once wielded in both Congress and at the White House.
Until now, he tells me, both Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate would “just roll over and play dead when Israel, the Israeli government or AIPAC wanted anything. If AIPAC says ‘vote no’, you vote no.” But those days, he believes, are now over and that’s good news, as he describes it, for both Palestine and Israel. He goes on to note that the group no longer represents “the way most American Jews think” and now serves the interests of only “right wing Jews in Israel and right wingers here. Peace is not something that they believe in.”
Two fascinating conversations on today’s show!
Also on today’s BradCast: Bernie Sanders seeks ‘common ground’ as he speaks to 12,000 students at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University; Climate change consequences continue to hit home, from massive rainfall in Japan to massive wildfires now devastating huge swathes of Northern California…
This week on The BRAD BLOG, the terrorist creator of the terroristic “shock and awe doctrine” is here to explain how Bernie Sanders will “destroy the economy.”
This must be what Trump means by getting “bored with the winning.”
The deal with Iran will be fantastic “if it is works and if it is enforced.” The question is will it work and will it be enforced? If it “works” and is “enforced” the way the North Korean nuclear works and was enforced we are in deep. At this point, we are still speculating on what the actual situation is on ground.
An absolutely remarkable radio show! Especially the portion with M.J. Rosenberg.
It was wonderful to hear Bernie Sanders getting cheers at Liberty University because the only thing I had heard about it until this was a terrible report on NPR that played a couple of portions of Sanders speech and cut out the cheers. Listen to it here.
The report is a damn lie. Shame on you NPR.
Larry Bergan @ 3:
Greatly appreciate that, sir. And a bit more on Sanders at Liberty U in today’s show! Stay tuned…
Im from Spain. I hope the peace USA IRAN and the agreement will be the end of the bad relations. Israel have to understand that dialog and negotiation is the best way. Next step Syria, i hope. God Bless USA!
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