Jeffrey Goldberg may have hit, perhaps unintentionally, on one of the main problems with the Obama presidency. This is from Mr. Goldberg’s article yesterday at The Atlantic on the nuclear agreement with Iran:
“Unlike many proponents of this deal, I take the Iranian regime’s threats to exterminate Israel seriously. (I’m not sure, based on my last conversation with Obama [an interview Mr. Goldberg conducted with the President in May of 2015], that he fully understands the depth of the regime’s anti-Semitism, in part because the regime’s anti-Semitism is so absurdly offensive and illogical that the hyper-rational Obama might not believe that serious people actually think the way certain Iranians think.)”
Read this part of what Mr. Goldberg wrote again: “the hyper-rational Obama might not believe that serious people actually think the way certain Iranians think”. This ties in with what David Sanger wrote in The New York Times:
“Mr. Obama is essentially betting that once sanctions have been lifted, Iran’s leaders will have no choice but to use much of the new money to better the lives of their long-suffering citizens. He has told his aides that he expects relatively little to be spent to finance terrorism or the emerging corps of Iranian cyberwarriors, a group now as elite as Iran’s nuclear scientists.”
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