Iran vs. America’s Crisis of Moral Confidence
We were once willing to stand up and walk away. What happened?
April 20, 2015
Iran vs. America’s Crisis of Moral Confidence
We were once willing to stand up and walk away. What happened?
Comparing current U.S. negotiations with Iran to American dealings with the Soviet Union from the 1950s through the 1980s, Natan Sharansky notes a key difference: during the cold war, the U.S. was willing to walk away from the table in response to Soviet aggression, demanded substantive concessions from Moscow, and took a stand for the human rights of Soviet citizens. When it comes to Iran, not so:
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