Peace. Not war.

It makes me sad that congress will not pursue peace. It makes me sad that the president won't work with the Congress, but its pretty clear a majority of congress will NOT negotiate with Iran. Congress is right, technically, that an executive treaty is against the constitution and may fall under a new administration. That said, it would have made us look less divided had we issued the letter to the press and to the president, or even in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Post. We have an adversarial relationship with Iran. It may be because we overthrew their democratically elected government in 1953. 25 years later when the people rebelled against the Shah (who we installed as a dictator in 1953) the revolution in the street overran the US embassy and took prisoners. Revolutions are messy. Then we financially backed Saddam Hussain and sold him chemical weapons that Saddam used on Iran.. until he grew out of control and we had to deal with the tyrant we put in power. I'm sure Iran and its people are afraid what we will do next. Iran has never attacked a sovereign nation without provocation (Iraq war) They are alleged to have backed terrorism, of course, but most of it is presumed, not proven. We have to be careful of course, trust but verify, but we have (get this) 45 miltary bases around the perimeter of Iran. If we do come to an agreement, and they break it, we could destroy them in 20 minutes. This will end, either in peace or in war. I prefer and pray for peace. I pray for our congress and our president, that they may find consensus. That they may work for peace and toil long and hard before they send more of our kids into war.