WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE JCPOA

UtahUtah’s Elected Officials Should Have The Smarts, And The Political Capital, ToExplain To Us That The Hope For Progress That Obama Has Tried To BuildWith This Pact May Be The Best We Can Reasonably Hope For. Unless They’dRather Go To War.“Sadly, the Utahns in Congress were quick to condemn the deal. Chaffetz called it‘totally unacceptable.’ Rep. Chris Stewart said, ‘It just makes me mad.’ Hatch objected,‘Any deal that removes sanctions without robust means of ensuring the regime’sdisarmament and compliance ... is worse than no deal at all.’ A claim that there is anobvious better choice, something both effective and feasible that Obama somehowmissed, can only be predicated on the belief that the United States is omnipotent andhas, or can ever hope for, the power to bend rich and technically advanced sovereignnations to our will. Utah’s elected officials should have the smarts, and the politicalcapital, to explain to us that the hope for progress that Obama has tried to build withthis pact may be the best we can reasonably hope for. Unless they’d rather go to war.”– Salt Lake Tribune, 7/17/15West VirginiaDiplomacy Over War“Without quite declaring it openly, top Republicans have clamored for America toplunge into war with Iran, just as the previous GOP administration ruinously plungedinto war with Iraq. Now, thank heaven, the Obama administration has won a victorythat prevents another bloodbath. The treaty negotiated by Secretary of State JohnKerry will let international inspectors verify that Iran’s nuclear power program isdoing nothing that might put an atomic bomb into the hands of suicidal terrorists, orgovernments.”– Charleston Gazette-Mail, 7/15/15