http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-kerry-scary-article-1.2322286Kerry gets very scary
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 6:13 PM
The specter of Sen. Chuck Schumer haunted Secretary of State Kerry when he argued in Manhattan Tuesday for the nuclear deal he’d negotiated with Iran.
After weighing the pluses of the proposed pact (and there are some) with the minuses (and there are many more), Schumer courageously broke with President Obama and most Democrats by calling for a return to negotiations in search of a better deal.
Kerry forcefully delivered his familiar arguments for why the pact is the last, best hope for trying to cage the nuclear-obsessed mullahs during an appearance at Thomson Reuters in conversation with Sir Harry Evans.
As the architect of the arrangement, Kerry spun the merits eloquently while taking on Schumer and those who want better with doomsday predictions. Oh, he of little faith.
The secretary spoke of a box. The one he wanted to highlight was that in which he claims Obama has stuffed the Iranians. More ominous was his depiction of the American people in a suffocating bank vault from which they have no escape unless they go along with Obama.
As far as Kerry and Obama are concerned, they have accomplished a fait accompli bearing such a high price for rejection as to be a done, done deal.
On the Iranian side of the ledger, Kerry minimized the $100 billion-plus that will pour into the Iranian economy with the lifting of sanctions as including a virtually de minimis sum of money for terror because much of it is spoken for in terms of debts to China and other needs.
And, said Kerry, U.S. unilateral sanctions will remain in place on items like the Iranians sending weapons to Hezbollah — although he did add, “We have all the things in the world to be able to enforce and deal with their behavior. It just hasn’t happened as quickly.” Is that so?
If Iran violates the nuclear deal, the secretary insisted that one nation — America — could force a “snap back” on international sanctions with “the support of France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia when that happens because it will be under a process.” You don’t say.
Finally, Kerry painted a post-rejection world of nightmare scenarios. This was a fantasy world in which the U.S. would use economic might to force allies into reimposing sanctions on Iran.
“Are you kidding me?” he asked. “The United States is going to start sanctioning our allies and their banks and their businesses because we walked away from the deal, and we are going to force them to do what we want them to do even though they agreed to the deal we came to?”
Among the parade of horribles Kerry floated was “a recipe, very quickly, my friends, businesspeople here, for the American dollar to cease to be the reserve currency of the world,” and, should military force be needed, the U.S. and Israel would have to go it alone.
Why? Because “the United Nations has already approved (the deal) 15 to nothing in the Security Council.”
In other words, Obama and Kerry are with the world against a deeply skeptical American people. Their message: Get on board or get screwed.
