Who in our national legislature voted to prove the Iranians right in their estimation that they could outlast us?

That vote to restrict the president did just that and made it more difficult to end the war by military action or negotiation. It is one of the most ridiculous actions by a government since Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane waving a useless scrap of paper.

We seem not to have learned that one cannot negotiate with dictators because they are answerable to no one. As far as keeping Iran from nuclear weapons, they seem to have forgotten the unsuccessful negotiations with North Korea, which now has an unstable, aggressive leader who is rigging boats with nukes.

If you think Iran wouldn’t use nukes if they had them, recall what fanatical Islamists did to the World Trade Center in 2001. It was the second attempt at destruction. The “Blind Sheik” attempted it in 1993 with a monstrous truck bomb in the parking garage.

Months ago, the Iranians told the U.S. negotiators, Kushner and Witkoff, that they had 460 kilograms, 1,012 pounds of 60% pure uranium.

It would require little effort to achieve weapons grade 90%. And they weren’t going to negotiate out of refining it.

That resulted in the president’s action, and why Congress is populated with some simpletons.

Tim Toroian

Altoona