Trumps Iran deal secrecy was atrocious and Vances dodging made it worse

Why didn’t President Donald Trump initially want to share the full text of the framework agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran?The first reason is obvious: the memorandum of understanding is a capitulation to the clerics of the regime.The second reason is also a scandal.“I don’t, frankly, fully understand it, but there are sensitivities that exist in the Arab and Muslim world that we’re trying to be responsive to,” a coy JD Vance told podcaster Megyn Kelly this week.But the vice president, who helped negotiate the framework, added that the “Iranians, Pakistanis and Qataris asked us to sequence this in the right way.”It’s disgraceful that the administration was taking direction from the radical clerics of Iran and the Pakistani military dictatorship on the “right way” to share a “peace agreement” with the American people.When it comes to Europeans, Vance always gets a thrill out of playing the tough guy, lecturing them on free speech and their cultural decline.No worries about the “sensitives” of the Germans or French, I guess.Bravo.In every way imaginable, however, Western Europeans are still freer and more moral than the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan.Yet Vance doesn’t want to tweak the delicate feelings of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.Indeed, Vance was also far tougher on American conservatives who oppose capitulation than the Iranian mullahs.The vice president told Kelly that “hawks” “don’t have an alternative” and “they’re proposing an endless conflict” and they “want this to go on until every bomb has been dropped or until every Iranian is dead.”This is a vile, Tucker Carlson-esque mischaracterization of the views of those who oppose piddling away a resounding American military victory against a terrorist regime.Not since Barack Obama has a politician been this adept at destroying strawmen.Most “hawks,” as far as I can tell, want the Iranians to be alive and...