Well, I started to listen to the analysis of the deal, but couldn't take it for very long.
On the core of the matter, the impression I got is that they only delayed the Iranians a bit at best. They could have done the same thing by keeping the sanctions. In other words, the deal was more important than what they actually accomplished with a deal. Got that? They just want to say that they got a deal, never mind that the deal isn't any good. In exchange, the Iranians get a lot of advantages that they ordinarily wouldn't have gotten without a deal. Let's put it another way: Obama gave away the store for a song.
I can't believe people actually would support this even as a matter of party loyalty, but I suspect that this is what is going to happen. They have already set it up that way in Congress. The GOP only wants the issue to dangle before their voters and maybe some people on the other side. Obama gets to say he has accomplished something of value and they Democrats can try to run on that. Anybody who disagrees is just a Neaderthal or party hack.
At some point, the fact that you are destroying the country ought to have some restraint upon you, but people don't seem to care. It's their tribe that counts.
Update:
I read a friendly analysis of the deal ( in the Atlantic, I think ). What they like to say is "what do you propose?" Well, that was decided years ago when Obama was first elected. Obama's election was a repudiation of Bush, and that is what has brought us to this point.
If Bush's policies had been continued, it may have been possible to overturn the regime in Iran. It may have been possible to do this without war.
In any case, if Iran would not negotiate, we could have continued to tighten the sanctions. If necessary, we could have done some military strikes to take out their capabilities and delay it for awhile. In the meantime, we also could have developed missile defense.
The left is absolutely assured that the only way to do things is their way. But what happens when it doesn't work?
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