{"id":13235,"date":"2015-03-03T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2015-03-03T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T20:06:09","slug":"why-netanyahus-speech-didnt-do-his-american-allies-any-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/03\/why-netanyahus-speech-didnt-do-his-american-allies-any-favors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Netanyahu\u2019s speech didn\u2019t do his American allies any favors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2015\/03\/03\/why-netanyahus-speech-didnt-do-his-american-allies-any-favors\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Was8908615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu argues that if the U.S. walked away, Iran would eventually capitulate on everything; the \u201cbetter deal\u201d he imagined is one in which Iran does everything short of dismantling its government. He had nothing to say about why this might happen if we weren\u2019t negotiating, other than that we should \u201ckeep up the pressure.\u201d That\u2019s his alternative: Do nothing, and instead of just going ahead and developing nuclear weapons, Iran will see the light and completely reverse everything it\u2019s been doing.<\/p>\n<p>To call that position \u201cabsurd\u201d is too kind. You don\u2019t have to be some kind of foreign policy whiz to grasp that there\u2019s something weird about arguing that 1) Iran is a nation run by genocidal maniacs; 2) they want nuclear weapons so they can annihilate Israel; and 3) the best way to stop this is to abandon negotiations to limit their nuclear program and just wait to see what they do. But that\u2019s the position Netanyahu and his supporters in the Republican Party are now committed to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2015\/03\/03\/why-netanyahus-speech-didnt-do-his-american-allies-any-favors\/\">>>Read original article &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu argues that if the U.S. walked away, Iran would eventually capitulate on everything; the \u201cbetter deal\u201d he imagined is one in which Iran does everything short of dismantling its government. He had nothing to say about why this might happen if we weren\u2019t negotiating, other than that we should \u201ckeep up the pressure.\u201d That\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22,9,18],"tags":[1784,55,588,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13246,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/13246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}