Donald Trump deserves exactly as much credit for the “deal” with Iran that he has announced as a spouse abuser does for announcing he will stop beating his wife.

Actually, that is not fair. He deserves less credit.

It is more a like a wife beater wanting to be congratulated for announcing he may at some point in the next few days begin to discuss reaching an agreement to stop hitting his partner—if they can in that time period agree to resolve difficult issues that have had them fighting as long as they have known each other.

No, that is not fair either. It is worse than that.

It is more like a guy who started an illegal war that led to global economic shocks and did not advance a single U.S. national interest while actually in some material ways strengthening our enemy seeking applause for having to shell out billions to pay off the party he attacked in order to temporarily restore the status quo.

Even if the so-called deal is actually not yet signed. And is actually not really a deal but is instead a Memorandum of Understanding in which the big complex issues relating that divide the two adversaries have yet to be negotiated. And probably will never be agreed to within the two month time frame that has been set aside for negotiation. Or ever.

Oh, and the entire fragile arrangement is dependent on the cooperation of a partner, Israel, that has announced already and repeatedly that it will not be a party to the deal.

What is more, the man who has walked........

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