Foreign Policy

The Saudis and the Israelis are snickering and rubbing their hands in delight because they derailed nuclear talks between Iran, the US and western powers.

Pat Buchanan predicts this means war.

"Thus, when France’s foreign minister torpedoed the deal John Kerry flew to Geneva to sign, France soared in neocon esteem. The “cheese-eating surrender monkeys ” of 2003 who opposed the Iraq war suddenly became again the heroes of Verdun and the Marne. "

Sounds like France. More from Just Raimondo.

"This time, you’d think we learned our lesson. One only has to ask how many times, over the years, has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Tehran is "months" away from joining the nuclear club? I’ve lost count. Whether it’s three months, six months, or a year or so, his predictions have always turned out to be false: if he had been right, by this time Iran’s nuclear arsenal would almost be on a par with Israel’s. It never happened."

"We are, in short, paying the price of "multilateralism." This policy of acting in concert with our alleged allies was supposed to be a more peaceful alternative to the warlike unilateralism pursued by George W. Bush – but that is not turning out to be the case in Geneva. The Obama administration could conclude a peace pact with Iran tomorrow, if it chose to do so, simply by ditching the "P5 + 1" framework and talking to Tehran one-on-one. We don’t need the French, nor anybody else, to reach an agreement and defuse the war talk that has dominated the headlines for the past five years. Washington enforces the sanctions which are crippling the Iranian economy, and the President could remove them – by executive order, if need be, bypassing Congress – but such a move is inconceivable in the current context."

He's made a career of it.

More complex motives for France torpedoing the agreement. Mencken said, "For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong."