Iran deal update...

Iran deal update...   I'm not entirely sure it's another debacle, so for now I'll keep calling it a “deal” – which, come to think of it, it is.  But for whom?  That's the interesting question...

Surrender in Geneva.  The inimitable Mark Steyn:

In Geneva, the participants came to the talks with different goals: The Americans and Europeans wanted an agreement; the Iranians wanted nukes. Each party got what it came for.

Comparisons with Munich are rampant.  I saw the photoshop at right and was just stunned – somehow the photo is much more powerful than all the words about the Iran deal I've read.

I'm afraid, though, that this photo won't mean much to all too many Americans, as they don't know enough history to recognize this as a photoshop of the famous photo of Neville Chamberlain (original at left) giving his infamous “Peace for our time” speech after making a disastrous deal with Hitler.  Shortly afterwards, World War II erupted, and the deal was recognized as being the enabling moment that allowed Hitler's evil to roll over Europe.

Is That One's deal with Iran the equivalent?  Certainly not the direct equivalent; there are too many relevant and significant differences between Hitler and his Germany, and the mad mullahs and their Iran.  But there are enough similarities to be concerning.  The very idea of the mad mullahs having a collection of nuclear weapons at their disposal is one that I find frightening – and I live half a world away.  Just imagine how the countries in their neighborhood feel about that!

Some cartoons from the week: