U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., is sworn into office by Vice President Joe Biden on Jan. 6. (AP/C-SPAN2)
Re: “Don’t allow a nuclear-armed Iran,” April 5 guest commentary by Sen. Cory Gardner.
It is painful for this lifelong Republican to see Sen. Cory Gardner jump into lockstep with my increasingly right-wing party and embrace their current ideology that any deal with Iran cannot be trusted. I was under the impression that I helped elect a thoughtful man.
The Iran deal on the table happens to be the only deal available. No Republican, and certainly not Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, has offered a thought-through alternative. Were we to reject the deal and increase sanctions, all the current inspectors in Iran would be immediately expelled, the Iranian nuclear program would go deep underground, and the Iranian people would rally to a regime that an increasing number of them resent.
Do Gardner and Netanyahu expect us to go to war again in the Middle East, but this time with a major power? Have we not poured enough blood into the sands of the Middle East, not to mention trillions in treasure?
Kevin E. Somerville,Denver
This letter was published in the April 12 edition.
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