I’m pretty much a hawk on Iran and certainly don’t trust them to hold their part of any deal. Putting that aside for a moment…

Note, numbered paragraphs below are not meant to correspond to MOU numbering.

1 – Why do we even need a deal? If, for whatever reason, the US doesn’t want to fight anymore, we can stop and leave without ceremony. Let them wonder if we’ll hit them again. They know what prompted our attack. The US doesn’t owe them a written apology. Iran misbehaved, we b*tch slapped them, so now -Bye! What’s wrong with that? Worried about the strait being open? How about letting other countries deal with that? I think of Trump on NATO when he said if they don’t pay in we won’t defend them. Why not take that approach if we’re tired of running this operation? If folks want the strait open, go open it! Oh, yes, I forgot – they let us use airports. Gee thanks. You saved us some mileage. We took Iran down a big notch. If there’s no will on the US part to finish it, let everyone else mop up. No occupation or nation building required.

2-Why does the US need to be involved in any way with Iran getting $300 billion? Iran’s concern would be that we would just sanction any charity gifts or loans sent their way. So? They have plenty of back channels they’ve been using to get around sanctions for decades. If they want to beg, let them beg through those channels.

3-The deal will be given 60 days to be finalized, but the US must begin removing forces in 30. Say what? If they said 30 days after a final deal, that may make some sense. This is patenty absurd. Would Trump do a real estate deal this way? Sure, we’ll finalize the mortgage qualification stuff in 60 days, but the seller has to move out and hand us the keys within 30. Yeah, right. I know I said first that I would put aside trust issues, however, this provision extends the Iranians a level of trust beyond ordinary business transactions.

4-As stated on Whitehouse.gov on 1 March, the first reason to do this operation was to deal with the nuclear program. The nuclear program should be settled now not later. What the MOU does settle is that Iran can maintain the status quo of its nuclear program – that means spinning up to 60%. So this MOU off the bat is a failure in the nuclear regard.

5-It completely fails to mention ballistic missiles, another big reason for attacking given in the 1 March statement. Coupled with Iran spinning away, this at best a can kicking provision. Note, the short range stuff that Iran has been using for decades are not ballistic missiles.

6-As an Iranian terror proxy, Lebanon is definitely a front on this war, but this deal is between the US and Iran and it’s Israel and Lebanon dealing with Hezbollah now. There are no US forces involved in that. If you want to include Lebanon territory in this, then you need to include the primary parties in that part of the transaction – Israel and Lebanon. This deal is written as if Hezbollah is the sovereign government of Lebanon. It is not. Again, would Trump run a real estate deal this way? This is like a bank and insurance company agreeing that two people will exchange property even though those individuals have no idea they are about to be moving. This also risks the entire deal failing on the whims of a Hezbollah commander launching rockets at Israel. You think Israel is not going to respond? And since Iran is now basically coming out and saying “Hezbollah is Iran”, the Israelis would be fully justified in including attacks on Iran as part of any response to Hezbollah.

Flat out retarded.