BS Summary: This article contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Burden of Proof, and False Dilemma, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 77.2% saturation with 257 hits. Analysis detected 1,857 faulty-reasoning hits from 333 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.2% and a BS Rank of 91% (2,125 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.30% of the article peer group.
There is something going on, a dynamic in place, that I've not seen remarked upon previously: Iran does not need to play the tough guy and refuse to make concessions to the U.S. because it will never abide by them, anyway .
There is no agreement or "Memorandum of Understanding" that it will not thumb its nose at, no vow it will not break.
Therefore, the only reason they are doing so is to make President Trump look weak and foolish and embarrass America.
And we are allowing them to do this, which makes us look weaker and more foolish.
Day after day, week after week - and now month after month - we are allowing them to play this game ... as Iran's leaders, such as they may be, sneer and laugh.
As I have previously written , all Iran and its crazy mullahs and IRGC thugocracy have to do to claim victory is survive.
President Trump, the master of "The Art of the Deal," is used to negotiating with people who are sane and have vested interests in seeking a win-win solution/agreement, so he may have come late to an acknowledgment of Iran's utter and complete perfidy.
And yet others, too, still appear credulous.
"Sure, Iran's leaders may give 74 lashes to girls who appear in public with their head exposed , throw gays off rooftops, and slaughter thousands of their own citizens for protesting, but do you really think they'd mislead us or lie about an agreement or "Memorandum of Understanding?"
I am not alt-right, I am not woke right.
I am MAGA all the way, through-and-through.
Proudly.
But Trump will have to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the proverbial hat to save face as regards Iran at this point.
Much as I admire him, Trump does not readily admit to mistakes.
Let's hope and pray that he can rectify this one.
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