Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Tuesday said that she thought Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was “powerful” but lacked alternatives to the current nuclear deal that the U.S. is negotiating with Iran.
“What he didn’t say was what would happen if there was no deal,” she said on CNN after Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. “And he didn’t make a suggestion as to what Israel would find agreeable. He simply said, there’s nothing that we agree with here. And then he made a number of pronouncements of terrible things that could happen.”
Feinstein said that denouncing the Iran deal was “really premature” on Netanyahu’s part because the deal has not yet been finalized.
Bottom Line: The US Congress is
notnow a campaign stop in the race for PM of Israel.But the San Franciscan did related to the Prime Minister’s secret Queen yearnings…
Sen Feinstein is quite correct. Let’s assume the deal is imperfect, as it will almost certainly be (since perfection is unachievable). What is the alternative? If the US walks away, what do the other 5 do? Unilateral sanctions by the US are worthless.
Hyperbole for its own sake, Crises for the Absent Minded, Up, Up and Away in My NeoCon Balloon…
Powerful speech? Just like above. Good one, Sean.