Reports of a nuke deal with Iran

I suppose you can look at this in more than one way.  One way is negative, the other is positive.  The negative way says that this deal allows Iran to get the bomb.  The positive way to look at it is that it averts a war ( maybe ).

In any event, Iran gets the bomb eventually because the current administration doesn't want to prevent that from happening.  That's the bottom line.  It's all about optics and the short term needs of the current office holders.  The country and world gets the bill later.

In order to make this deal "positive", you'd better come up with a very, very good missile defense system now.  That's what we threatened to do with the Soviet Union.  We didn't follow up because the Soviet Union collapsed.  But these guys won't go away so easily.  We'll have to develop missile defense in earnest now.  There's no getting around that fact.