In a letter to the Indiana Daily Student, Jamal Allen Sowell writes Congress should repudiate the nuclear deal with Iran.
The present deal is the best we could negotiate.
It is either this deal or no deal.
Sowell neglects to point out that the agreement was negotiated not only between the United States and Iran, but Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany were involved as well.
If the United States abandons the deal and retains its sanctions, as Sowell advocates, the sanctions will be ineffective because our partners will not support reimposed sanctions.
Thus, Iran will be able to build a nuclear weapon if it wishes without being subject to the sanctions that exist today.
Without the agreement, how are we to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb?
We see no other way than by going to war with a country of 80 million people, which would have disastrous consequences for Iran, the Middle East and the United States.
It is much better to delay Iran building nuclear weapons by at least fifteen years — perhaps indefinitely — as Iran still will be bound by the terms of the nonproliferation treaty it has signed after the fifteen years are finished.
Respectfully yours,
Don Lichtenberg
Rita Lichtenberg
Bloomington, Indiana
