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Biden’s Munich Agreement – With Iran

Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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by AMAC, Robert B. Charles
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If only…we knew history. Contrary to popular understanding, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s September 1938 Munich Agreement with Germany – intended to avert war – was met with “jubilation.” The West, uneasy, unready, and in debt, wanted to believe – so did. They imagined that flimsy accord meant peace; Hitler imagined it opened the door to victory.

In September 1939, a year later, Hitler invaded Poland, triggering a war that would kill 53 million people, blithely destroy whole countries, and vanquished all peace and normalcy.

While 2023 is not 1938, risks associated with appeasement, wishful thinking, and faux agreements – paper worth little but inviting bad actors to do bad things – are just as real.

Now comes news – after the US decisively withdrew, in May 2018, from a breached, unenforceable, permissive agreement with Iran aimed at taking their appetite for nuclear weapons away – that Joe Biden has negotiated a new deal with no Senate approval. 

Treaties, of course, have to be approved by two-thirds of the US Senate – Article 2, section 2, US Constitution – but what a treaty is can be fiercely debated. It should be again – right now.

Biden has no authority to give away money for pie crust promises – easily made, easily broken, especially to Iran around nuclear weapons. What he has done, in effect, is to renegotiate – secretly in Oman – an agreement that resembles Chamberlain’s naivete in Munich in 1938.

Intentionally muddied by a comingled with a hostage release, getting five Americans home to stir “jubilation,” Biden’s Munich Agreement gives Iran six billion dollars (much needed), in part for a reported promise by Iran not to enrich uranium above 60 percent, to “weapons grade.”

While Biden’s team denies talk of uranium enrichment, they also denied talks of any agreement. On August 10, a State Department spokesman called “rumors” of a nuclear accord “false and misleading,” but on June 28, Secretary Blinken himself denied talks, “no deal in the offing.” If Blinken could so boldly shade the truth, what do you think those nuclear denials are worth?

Of course, somewhere in the ether – if House Republicans or what is left of a curious press push hard – we might see the text and codicils, if not the nods and winks, around this non-treaty treaty. The likelihood is when we all do is talk about limiting uranium enrichment for money occurs.

The main thing to take away is that wishful thinking – compounded by intentional misdirection – seems to be how this White House operates, again and again, on Iran, the world, and everything.

What this “Iran deal” tells us is sobering.  Biden’s team believes what they want to believe, that like Iran, can be trusted. They believe Iran will stop angling for nuclear weapons if paid. They refuse to imagine the unimaginable, a war started based on hate, opportunity, and weakness.

More broadly, this gambit tells us what they think of Americans. They think we will not notice they paid billions to the world’s biggest terrorists for hostages, violating US policy and laws. 

They think we will not recognize this as a treaty since they blurred the lines, secretly talking about limits on uranium enrichment for that big money, and hid it all behind a hostage purchase.

They think, in effect, if they can imagine being lawful, pretend the Senate has no rights, and dub this treaty something else, all will be well. It will not.

They think we are stupid – stupider because we do not trust Iran, think this is just another Biden sham within a sham, another attempt to end-run statutes, the Constitution, and accountability.

Here is what they should do: Go back and read their history and think harder about what got Neville Chamberlain and his wishful thinkers in trouble. Look up appeasement, and see what it buys you.

Contrary to popular understanding, there is no cause for “jubilation” in Biden’s new “Iran deal,” a profoundly misconceived, poorly disguised, historically wrongheaded attempt to gild the lily – an attempt to make something of nothing, misunderstanding an adversary, imagining victory.

Time and again, Biden reveals a dangerous lack of understanding and acts on that misunderstanding, gets cold water in the face, and declares victory. Think Afghanistan, China, and Ukraine, overspending, energy deprivation, high inflation, anti-police-open-border sentiment followed by high crime, drug deaths, sex trafficking, homelessness, and eroding public trust – now this.

Truth is, if anyone could make Neville Chamberlain look good, Joe Biden is the guy. Robert Gates, Obama’s Defense Secretary, was right – Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Let’s add another – Biden’s 2023 Munich Agreement with Iran. If only…we knew history.   

Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.

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PaulE
PaulE
1 year ago

Well RBC, we both knew something like this was coming at some point in Biden’s first term. All they needed was a pretext to justify handing billions of dollars over to Iran, so Team Biden can have a foreign policy “win” of sorts. Blinken and company are still trying to get Obama’s failed nuclear containment agreement (his sole foreign policy “success” after 2 terms in office) reactivated with Iran. So, expect many more billions of dollars to be shoveled to the Mullahs before this clown show ends in Washington. My only question is whether we will hand over many more billions to the Mullahs before or after they declare they are a nuclear superpower and have ICBMs with nuclear warheads ready to launch. My current bet is after, since the IAEA says Iran only needs 2 weeks to get their existing uranium stockpile up to weapons grade for bombs. Isn’t it amazing how fast things can go south, when we allow the same Obama era idiots back into power?

CB
CB
1 year ago

This is what happens when an incompetent bumbling puppet is put in-charge of the circus

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
1 year ago

Ppl who voted for this idiot should be the ones indicted, not Trump. If anyone “conspired to defraud voters” it was Democrats.

Ron
Ron
1 year ago

Just how much more must we put up with from this administration? All we get is talk from our Republican House, talk and do action! It’s about time our people get some backbone and actually do something!

USN Retired
USN Retired
1 year ago

Terrorists, that hate America, with nuclear weapons. Anybody see a problem here?

Rik
Rik
1 year ago

Jackass Joe Biden is so inept it’s astounding that he “could” have been elected! . . . Oh, that’s right, he wasn’t!

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 year ago

WHEN is Dictator Beijing biden going to REFILL the National Strategic Oil Reserve that he EMPTIED by playing politics and SELLING IT TO Communist China which IS Espionage and Treason?

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
1 year ago

Rerun 1938 Munich event

Max
Max
1 year ago

RBC, Bottom Line: People/persons never look to the past to learn worldly lessons that have failed (for the most part) or succeeded. It is just huge revolving circle that continues to revolve from the beginning to the end and then repeat itself.

Marlin
Marlin
1 year ago

The Catholic, Joe Biden, has never heard or read that you don’t make deals with the Devil. Because he lies, cheats, steals and doesn’t play fair.

Jcanderson
Jcanderson
1 year ago

Paying off the Vikings didn’t work either ! DUH

Roger Joseph Buffington
Roger Joseph Buffington
1 year ago

Well, the author here, like many AMAC writers, seems ready to pull a Chamberlain on Ukraine. Ukraine is eating the Russian military wholesale, and disarming Russia for generations, and many of my fellow Republicans stupidly want to sell out Ukraine and let Russia win. Unacceptable.
The author is right about this Iran deal though. Stupidity and dishonesty in equal portions.

Aren Haich
Aren Haich
1 year ago

Iran is not going to invade Poland. Russia might.

Casey C Matt
Casey C Matt
1 year ago

No, we should NEVER talk to a competitor the US usually calls “the enemy”. Instead we should get all the War Whores in Congress, led by the esteemed baby killer wannabe, Lindsay Graham and declare war on…….in this instance, Iran.
KILL KILL KILL KILL
Its the American Way!!

Tom Aron
Tom Aron
1 year ago

No, Iran is not Germany of the 90’s. Author needs to get out an atlas. Iran is no threat to the USA. Nor was Iraq, Nor was Afghanistan or Vietnam, how about we concentrate on fortress America with good relations with all countries of the world to boost our in economy and standard of living.

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