Right Can't Stretch Imagination And View The Iran Deal As Peace Deal [Picture, Video]

Here are the politics of the Iran nuclear deal: Congress returns next week from its summer recess, and among the first orders of business will be taking up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program, recently negotiated with Iran in Vienna by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.

Opponents of the agreement had hoped to use the August break to sway undecided members of Congress. They pledged to spend millions of dollars on TV ads. They threatened to fill town hall meetings with angry, sign-waving constituents. Their intent was to build a veto-proof majority in the House and Senate to scuttle this plan, which is one of the Obama administration’s signature foreign policy achievements — reason enough for opposition for many Republican lawmakers.

It didn’t happen.

Instead, yesterday, Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland became the 34th senator to publicly support the accord — meaning there are enough votes to sustain a presidential veto of any bill intended to kill it.

Now, here is a faith perspective: For Christians, this is a victory for peace and diplomacy over another bloody and destructive war. It is a time when common sense wins over bombast — when reality wins over rhetoric.

Iran is an enemy of the United States, of Israel, and of peace. And this is a plan that will deny that enemy the chance to build a nuclear weapon for many years. Enemies are real, but red  sourcr