IRAN WARNING – AT 8:41 A.M. ET:   Former CIA chief Michael Hayden has issued an unusually blunt warning about our softness toward Iran.  Obama won't listen.  Trump should.  From The Hill: 

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said early Sunday that the Obama administration is held hostage by the Iran nuclear agreement.

“We don’t push back on Iran in a whole lot of other places,” Hayden told ABC’s “This Week.”
Hayden, a critic of the Iran deal, said United States foreign policy in the next administration should push back against Iran in Iraq, Syria, and the Gulf states.

“If the Iranians want to walk away from the deal, fine,” he added.

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to get rid of the Iran nuclear agreement.

Hayden has been a critic of Trump, saying in a Washington Post op-ed earlier this month that the president-elect is a "useful tool" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

COMMENT:  Hayden speaks his mind, and, yes, he is right in saying that Trump must be confronted on his overly friendly attitude toward Putin.  Remember that Obama had the same attitude until reality set in.  As did Hillary Clinton.

But Hayden is also right about Iran.  That country laughs out loud at us, and the laughter has increased since the nuclear deal, a deal in Iran's favor.  Let's see Trump put his policy where his mouth has been.

November 22, 2016