Obama to Iran: “If you like your nuke program; you can keep your nuke program.”

But unlike the millions of hapless Americans who are losing their health insurance under the “Unaffordable Couldn’t Care Less About Your Health Act,” the Iranians will actually get to keep their illegal uranium enrichment program. Iran also gets crippling sanctions dropped, 8 billion in frozen assets returned and they achieve the clout of a nuclear power as a reward for having flouted international law.

What’s not to like? Wow! What a deal, America!

Death to America. It’s an Iranian national obsession, along with burning the American flag. The Iranians also hate Israel enough to repeatedly call for the destruction of that country. At the same time John Kerry was announcing the great benefits of this “nuclear deal” with Iran to the world, Iran’s supreme leader was addressing his own people, calling for the total destruction of Israel... yet once again.

Would JFK have capitulated to a misogynist stone-age Islamic theocracy the way this president has? John Kerry even said the agreement was “not based on trust, but on verification.” Well, how do you verify a deal with the devil, Mr. Kerry? I can just see John Kerry now riding a camel through the Iranian desert with a geiger counter in one hand and a signed copy of the nuclear agreement in the other. Hillary should be riding right along side Johnny, since she was such a wonderful apologist for the Benghazi fiasco. But what difference would it make anyway?

Even Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Gulf states are miffed about this nuclear deal. Relations couldn’t be worse with “our good friends the Saudis.” The Sunni Arabs hate the Persian Shiites almost as much as they hate America now. It’s just that simple. The arrogance of the White House putting this deal together in secret is beyond comprehension. We didn’t even consult Israel about this deal, even though they will bear the brunt of Obama’s surrender to Iran. Let’s be honest. It’s no secret that this administration hates Israel about as much as the Europeans do. How is it that America now hates its friends and loves its enemies? The reckless actions of our Community Organizer in Chief is like a Jimmy Carter foreign policy on steroids. Israel is now back against the wall... and the clock is ticking.

What did America gain by the appeasement of North Korea’s illegal nuclear program? Answer; North Korea now has nuclear weapons with which to threaten and intimidate its neighbors. I was living in northern Japan at the time when they tested the first nuke right across the Sea of Japan in October of 2006. And now, because of this feckless failed American appeasement policy towards North Korea, its only a matter of time before despotic Kim Jong-un is able to assemble nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles aimed at the U.S., South Korea and Japan.

This deal with the devil gives the Iranians everything they wanted and everything the world wanted: cheap Iranian oil and feel-good compromise. When the Iranians get working nuclear ICBMs, will Obama sheepishly apologize to Israel and “the American People”?

Gen. Hossein Salami (yes, that is his real name), commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced just days after Obama’s nuclear surrender to Iran that, “Iran has developed ballistic missile technology which could eventually allow it to fire a nuclear payload over great distances.” A nuclear payload? Hmmmm. I thought we had a working agreement with the devil? Are you listening, Johnny? You’d better get on your camel and ride.

Is Gen. Salami full of baloney? Apparently Israel doesn’t think so. War in the Middle East is even more likely now because of this deal with the devil. The Israeli premier rebuked U.S. President Barack Obama over the agreement by the Western powers and Iran. “What was concluded in Geneva last night is not a historic agreement; it’s a historic mistake,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters. “It’s not made the world a safer place. Like the agreement with North Korea in 2005, this agreement has made the world a much more dangerous place.”

According to Tzachi Hanegbi, a member of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, “The prime minister made it clear to the most powerful man on earth that if he intends to stay the most powerful man on earth, it’s important to make a change in American policy” because “the practical result of his current policy is liable to lead him to the same failure that the Americans absorbed in North Korea and Pakistan, and Iran could be next in line.”

Iran is mocking America. They see us as a weak beggarly nation as they race toward the goal of obtaining nuclear weapons. And who can blame them from thinking this way with the kind of incompetent leadership we have in the White House? Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton called the deal with Iran an “abject surrender by the United States.”

The appeasement of Hitler allowed Germany to invade Europe with impunity, resulting in the unmitigated slaughter of millions. If we learn nothing else from history, America needs to understand that peace is achieved through strength, not capitulation and compromise with the devil.

Seymour is a resident of Kalispell.