THE DAY AFTER – AT 9:06 A.M. ET:   It is a day after the "deal" was announced, and everyone who's anyone is reacting.  Among the thoughtful, those with a sense of history, there is real apprehension bordering on despair.  These are the people who think in national-defense terms, who believe that the survival of the United States is more important than the greater glory of Barack.  Sadly, there aren't too many of them in the media, but they are there.

Perhaps the best overall statement I've read about the Iran deal came from John Podhoretz of Commentary:

The United States and its allies have struck a deal with Iran that effectively ensures that it will be a nuclear state with ballistic missiles in 10 years, assuming Iran adheres to the deal’s terms, which is a very large assumption. And though I’ve only made a preliminary pass at the deal sheet and don’t want to make definitive calls about it, it appears from the language that Iran will have 24 days before it has to allow inspections at its sites, none of which has been shut down or dismantled — which will make cheating unbelievably easy. And, while the president this morning declared that violations would make sanctions “snap back,” the only way they will do so is after a U.N. commission meets and agrees such violations have happened and then imposes them — which you know Russia will never allow. The president and the secretary of state are making large claims for the deal that are not true; the same will be true of all of its signatories, who are seeing Nobel stars in their eyes. This is an infamous day, and while those of us who see Iran’s nuclearization as the threshold threat for the rest of the 21st century will not be silent and will not give up the fight against it, it is appropriate to take a moment to despair that we — the United States and the West — have come to this.

COMMENT:  The notion that sanctions can be reimposed is ludicrous on its face.  The money will start to flow between Iran and other countries, and what we will have will be the equivalent of international bribery.  No nation will give up lucrative contracts simply to prevent what they will see as inevitable anyway, an Iranian bomb. 

This deal cooks us.  It also tells us everything we need to know about Barack Obama. 

July 15,  2015