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Letter: Sometimes best option is lesser of other evils

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Hilton Head IslandThe Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (the Iran nuclear deal) was negotiated between the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- USA, China, Russia, France and the United Kingdom -- and Germany) and Iran. The agreement was the culmination of more than two years of negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran on an agreement to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons (or the capacity to build them).

I don't believe there is a single Republican in Congress who supports the plan, but then I don't believe that Republicans would support any agreement that was negotiated between the P5+1 and Iran.

All of us would have preferred a better deal, but after two years of negotiations the deal we got had to be weighed against starting another war in the Mideast or having Iran continue developing a nuclear bomb.

While Republicans promise that they would provide a far better solution, they failed to supply concrete, better alternatives.

Now that we know that the Congress will not override the treaty, hopefully Americans will realize that sometimes the best option available is the lesser of two (or more) bad alternatives.

Frank Flaumenhaft

This story was originally published September 21, 2015 at 3:26 PM with the headline "Letter: Sometimes best option is lesser of other evils."

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