Response to "The Senate GOP's reckless intrusion into Iran negotiations"

Your recent editorial "The Senate GOP's reckless intrusion into Iran negotiations' fails to point out  the hypocrisy on the part of the Democrats. I do agree that perhaps the letter would have been better served if printed in the NY Times. That being said, the Democrats need to stop their hyperbole. At least seven times in recent history  Democrats advised America's enemies to oppose the President. In 2002, Democratic House members traveled to Iraq to avert the American led invasion in opposition to George W. Bush's foreign policy. In 1987 Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas personally entered into peace talks involving Contra and Sandinista leaders in Nicaragua and worked out a deal to bring Ortega to the US to visit with lawmakers without the approval of President Reagan. In 2007 when the Bush administration tried to isolate the Assad regime for failing to crack down on insurgents who used the country as a base for attacking Iraq, Nancy Pelosi , the Democratic Speaker of the House at the time, traveled to Damascus to meet with the beleaguered tyrant.

How sad that many Democrats are blowing this up into an artificial controversy. This is averting the focus away from the real problem which is recognized by the vast majority of both parties- Iran's path towards acquiring a nuclear weapon and a proposed weak deal that will apparently hasten the way.

 

Carol Denbo

18 Aspen Road

Swampscott MA

sent to Globe March 2015 //never published