We are told that we can compel the international community to renegotiate the Iran deal through the use of sanctions. Yes, that’s right, the concept is that we would threaten to stop doing business with anyone in the world, friend and foe alike, who refuses to scrap the deal and impose a better one.
Somehow, cutting the world’s largest economy off from all of its chief trading partners doesn’t sound like a great idea, or a credible negotiating strategy. We would essentially be doing voluntarily to ourselves what the West has done to Russia, with, if anything, even more dire results.
Compared with this, war sounds sensible. Maybe that was the thought all along.