Peloni: Daniel Greenfield perfectly describes price of paying Iran’s price. The circular reality of Trump’s impossible deal explains why it isn’t working and why it never can work.
Iran only has one card to play and it’s not going to stop.
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Via Memri.org
Iran only has one card to play and that’s shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. So it’ll never stop doing it.
Iran’s leaders, unsatisfied with billions in oil sales, access to cash, and promises of sanctions relief and $300 billion in the deal, are trying to charge for access to the strait, meanwhile despite the waivers of oil sales, they’re attacking ships passing through the strait to show they’re in charge.
So now the Trump administration authorized strikes on Iran’s drones and missiles again.
This comes after J.D. Vance had proposed a ‘deconfliction’ program between the United States military and Iran’s IRGC terrorists.
Unsurprisingly, it didn’t work.
The only thing that you get when you negotiate with terrorists is more terrorism. That’s because negotiating with them shows that the terrorism worked and because it’s all the leverage that they’ve got.
We’re negotiating with them because they shut down the Strait of Hormuz. And some politicians still think they can work out a deal that will stop Iran from pushing the same button that gave them a win.
How is that supposed to work exactly?
Kipling summed that up nicely.
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:– “Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we’ve proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.
Pay the Dane-geld and you never get rid of the Dane. Pay the Jihadis and you never get rid of the Jihad.
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