Real Coffe - Scott Adams - Episode 54 - President Trump’s Iran Deal Announcement
Aired: 2018-06-16
Duration: 04:21


=== Quick Reaction to Iran Deal (04:21) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody!
[00:00:11]  You're probably wondering about this Iran deal.
[00:00:18]  So I thought I would tell you about it.
[00:00:21]  Give you my immediate reaction.
[00:00:23]  This will be a quick one.
[00:00:25]  Just a quick reaction to the President's announcement.
[00:00:28]  So, not too surprising.
[00:00:29]  He said he would do it.
[00:00:30]  He did it. But it's sort of the pull-out that's not really a pull-out because, obviously, he's willing to renegotiate.
[00:00:39]  So, the parts that I liked about it in terms of persuasion...
[00:00:43]  I'll let you look at my dog.
[00:00:47]  In terms of persuasion, the parts I liked were...
[00:00:50]  He drew a picture of Iran after the mullahs, or at least with better leadership, and Iran in which they're prosperous and respected by the world.
[00:01:04]  So he's clearly doing his contrast persuasion, and we don't see it done this well by other people.
[00:01:11]  Where he draws a picture of this great situation that they have in front of them if they make the right choices versus a crushed economy if they go the other way.
[00:01:23]  So I love the contrast part of it.
[00:01:26]  I'm still calling bullshit on sponsors of terrorism.
[00:01:34]  Because I think they're bending the definition a little bit because it sounds like it includes standing militaries.
[00:01:40]  So if they're helping a militia or Hezbollah or folks in Yemen, Those are kind of standing armies.
[00:01:55]  Now you can call them terrorism, but we usually think of terrorism as the loner with the gun or the bomb.
[00:02:03]  So it's a different kind of terrorism if that's what they're talking about.
[00:02:06]  So I object to that characterization of it because I think it just adds some noise to the situation.
[00:02:16]  So I think he laid out the case.
[00:02:20]  The strongest part of the case goes like this.
[00:02:23]  You can't let a country that chants death to America have nuclear weapons.
[00:02:32]  You know, if he had only said that and nothing else, I would have been sold.
[00:02:37]  I didn't really need to hear their supporting terrorism.
[00:02:43]  You know, that's good, but I didn't need to hear it because I was already, you know, you had me at death to America plus nuclear weapons.
[00:02:52]  There's no scenario in which that, you know, is a comfortable situation.
[00:02:58]  So there might be some questions about what trouble are they up to, aside from having missiles that we don't like, which we're not really part of the deal, apparently.
[00:03:11]  And having the capability to have nukes, which we don't like.
[00:03:15]  So those two things are good things to make sure that we tighten up.
[00:03:22]  But I'm not buying the supporting terrorism unless you give me examples.
[00:03:27]  And those examples have to be not standing militaries.
[00:03:32]  Now I understand that these standing militaries, at least in the case of Hezbollah, We're a direct threat to Israel, so we can't abide by that either.
[00:03:43]  But if that's what we mean when we say supporting terrorism, I think we could just say supports Hezbollah.
[00:03:50]  Hezbollah has done X things against Israel since the deal was signed.
[00:03:57]  So I need some specifics.
[00:04:04]  It does seem to me that the president is credible in this and he's probably smart to at least push on the deal and see if we can get something better.
[00:04:16]  So that's all I have for now and I'm gonna go to the gym and do something else.