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Another curious reaction

Reaction by President Barack Obama and some other liberals to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning about Iran’s weapons buildup was curious, to say the least.

In a speech Tuesday to a joint session of Congress, Netanyahu warned negotiations aimed at preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons are dangerously flawed. A deal backed by U. S. officials “will not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. It would all but guarantee that Iran gets those weapons,” the Israeli leader said.

Obama’s defense of his plan was that “the prime minister did not offer any viable alternatives.”

Any idea from Netanyahu would be rejected out of hand by Iran, of course, as Obama knows.

And, of course, there is the problem that Obama – a my-way-or-the-highway president – has made it clear he has contempt for most positions taken by Israel.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had a truly strange reaction to Netanyahu. She said she was “near tears throughout the prime minister’s speech, saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States.”

Pelosi already has demonstrated her unbounded trust in anything proposed by Obama. But in a situation like this, involving development of nuclear weapons by a rogue nation, questions like Netanyahu’s need to be asked.

Americans simply cannot afford to sit idly by while a deal with Iran is finalized – so we can find out then what’s in it.

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