In his speech today at American University on the Iran nuclear arms deal, President Obama asked for critics to evaluate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on its own merits. “Unfortunately,” said Obama, “we’re living through a time in American politics where every foreign policy decision is viewed through a partisan prison, evaluated by headline-grabbing sound bites, and so before the ink was even dry on this deal, before Congress even read it, a majority of Republicans declared their virulent opposition. Lobbyists and pundits were suddenly transformed into armchair nuclear scientists.”
In other words, while Obama called for bipartisanship he tarred those skeptical of the deal as partisan hacks who don’t know what they’re talking about and are influenced by foreign governments—Israel’s, to be precise, which, according to Obama, is the only entity in the world that does not support the JCPOA.
