In the immortal words of General Buck Turgidson, “I smell a big fat commie rat.”
How much of the $150B might have gone to Obama? Kerrey? Hillary?
$15 billion (10%) would be a typical Finder’s Fee. Well worth it-—and would explain behavior on both sides, including Iran’s mocking the U.S. even in the last few weeks.
The foreign policy of the USA has been bipartisan since WW 2 and oriented towards making the world safe to do business in under UN rules, international law etc. etc.
Wars have been limited policing actions like Korea and Vietnam and more recently Iraq and Afghanistan.
Little wars without end because victory is not the objective, containment and eventual negotiations and peace agreements etc. are the end game.
Islamic State is also a containment thing as well.
Iran is being contained in Syria and Yemen in the civil wars there even as the friendly nuke deal is signed.
40 years ago Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford cut deals like the Helsinki Accord to appease the Soviets even as they were helping South African troops fight Cubans in the Angolan Civil War. The Reps. in the WH and Dems in Congress.
40 years later same deal with Iran with a Dem. President and a Rep. Congress.