http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...having-devilish-intentions_914336.html?page=1
In negotiating circles, this is called moving the goal posts. It's pretty common in middle eastern negotiations owing to their extreme paranoia. Any deal you were willing to accept must by definition be unfair to me. Therefore, I will ask for more. It's only fair. If you refuse it proves you were trying to cheat me.
One might ask how such critical details were somehow left vague enough that the parties have diametrically opposing views on how they are to be handled. It's a fair question. The answqer is one side or the other is lying, or the Iranians are moving the goal posts after seeing how desperate obama and Kerry were for a deal, any deal. And then there is the matter of the actual verification itself. The iranians are totally ok with it provided it doesn't involve any of their military facilities or defense research work. Uhh ok, how about we inspect Tehran University? Would that be ok?
It is beginning to appear that "verification" in this deal will be like "border security" in the immigration debate. Something that is talked about and treated as a serious matter until the ink is dry, then forgotten by both sides. Put less charitably, it's eyewash designed to fool the media, which doesn't take much, and the public.
Iran's point is why should it be subject to more intrusive inspections than other countries. Perhaps Kerry is too PC to answer that they are the leading international sponsor of terrorism, regularly promise to obliterate Israel and are trying to build missiles to reach the US. But if he says that, you might ask why are we negotiating with them in the first place.
In negotiating circles, this is called moving the goal posts. It's pretty common in middle eastern negotiations owing to their extreme paranoia. Any deal you were willing to accept must by definition be unfair to me. Therefore, I will ask for more. It's only fair. If you refuse it proves you were trying to cheat me.
One might ask how such critical details were somehow left vague enough that the parties have diametrically opposing views on how they are to be handled. It's a fair question. The answqer is one side or the other is lying, or the Iranians are moving the goal posts after seeing how desperate obama and Kerry were for a deal, any deal. And then there is the matter of the actual verification itself. The iranians are totally ok with it provided it doesn't involve any of their military facilities or defense research work. Uhh ok, how about we inspect Tehran University? Would that be ok?
It is beginning to appear that "verification" in this deal will be like "border security" in the immigration debate. Something that is talked about and treated as a serious matter until the ink is dry, then forgotten by both sides. Put less charitably, it's eyewash designed to fool the media, which doesn't take much, and the public.
Iran's point is why should it be subject to more intrusive inspections than other countries. Perhaps Kerry is too PC to answer that they are the leading international sponsor of terrorism, regularly promise to obliterate Israel and are trying to build missiles to reach the US. But if he says that, you might ask why are we negotiating with them in the first place.
