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At last count, the number of congressional Republican supporting the international nuclear agreement with Iran is exactly zero. But away from Capitol Hill, its a very different story.
For example, former Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, used to be seen as one of the most influential voices in GOP politics on matters of international affairs. With that in mind, it matters that Lugar doesnt want to see the Iran deal derailed, putting him sharply at odds with his former colleagues in Congress.
Brent Scowcroft, a veteran National Security Advisor to several Republican presidents, who also served as the chairman of George W. Bushs Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, has also expressed support for the deal.
And then theres former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. As the Washington Post reported, he sounds a little annoyed by the inanity of his own partys talking points, which he recognizes as wrong.
Its somewhere in between naive and unrealistic to assume that after weve, the United States of America, has negotiated something like this with the five other, you know, parties and with the whole world community watching, that we could back away from that and that the others would go with us, or even that our allies would go with us, Paulson said during a forum sponsored by the Aspen Institute on Thursday night to discuss his new book on China.
And unilateral sanctions dont work, okay? Paulson continued. They really have to be multilateral.
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(68,868 posts)See also Powell, Colin.
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(92,502 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The tired old white men squawking retread Warhawks have already lost, they apparently just do not know it yet.