Another success? No

So our State Department that represents us internationally couldn’t deliver the votes in the UN to extend the arms embargo on Iran. Please note we failed to deliver the votes on something that the UN had already agreed on once before. So, you might say we lost the support we had. We couldn’t even deliver the votes of France, Britain and Germany, our allies. So much for the art of the deal. Guess all that name-calling didn’t scare them into subservience.

On the other hand, Obama delivered the votes of China, Russia, Germany, France and Britain and the U.S. for his treaty and, let’s add, the document being a treaty not a oneway prohibition, Obama also delivered the signature of the party being sanctioned. Can you imagine getting everyone in a room and coming out with a deal rather than merely rattling sabers? It seems pretty obvious that Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize he received after all. Looks like that particular award has slipped away from Trump’s grasping hands as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor and others that he thinks he might deserve.

Unfortunately, there will be future consequences to Trump success: the destruction of a real diplomatic success. This is just one more case of our signature on a document not being worth the paper it was written on. We can hang this Certificate of Achievement on the wall in the White House alongside our other successes with North Korea and China and the Middle East Religious Civil War.

DANNY HANCOCK

Lonoke