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  An interesting and sad thing in The NY Times article is this lost opportunity:
  “A malfunction led to the aircraft landing in the desert, and President Obama briefly considered sending in a Navy SEAL team to blow it up before it fell into the hands of Iranian engineers, senior officials later reported. He decided not to take the risk, and within days the Iranians paraded the drone through the streets of Tehran, a propaganda victory.
  But American intelligence officials later concluded that the aircraft likely proved a bonanza for Iranian drone designers, who could reverse engineer the craft.”
context: Maybe if we had some sort of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in place with Iran we would be in a better negotiating position >
  
  Trump tore it up tho >
  
  Exactly.
  All the planning in existence means nothing when the next guy in power simply tears it all up to the applause  of the masses >
  
  Oh look the stuff we feared when Trump tore up the contract happened. Big surprise, oh wait it’s not. >
  
  Worse part is they'll blame Biden because he, "isn't doing anything."
  Just like the whole Afghanistan evac. >
  
  Yeah like how it was publicly shown Trump and Pompeo released all the Taliban prisoners and their leader and how Afghanistan went back to 1999 conditions. And people are: “it’s Biden’s fault for letting them destroy women’s rights in that country.” Yet cheered for Roe over turning that basically did the same. I’ve said for a long time I’d these people lived in these countries for 1 hour or were out on the front lines of the wars or protest. They be screaming to be saved and peeing their pants and crying until they disappeared from society forever. >
  
  How humiliating, to have to rely on Iran to provide you weaponry. Russia is a joke >
  
  Iran's drone program is way more dangerous now because we stupidly did not send in a Navy SEAL Team to blow up a malfunctioning US drone that the Iranians then successfully recovered and reverse engineered. >
  
  This is why Trump ripping up the deal was so friggin stupid.
  We had already released Iran's money back to them.  So we had given them what they wanted.  It cost us nothing to keep the deal in place.
  By ripping up the deal, it gave Iran the benefit and it gave us nothing in return.  He didn't have a new deal planned or ready.  
  It's like telling a problem child that if he promised to be good that day, he will be allowed to eat candy for breakfast.. and then after the child eats all the candy, telling the child "nevermind, the deal is off" so now the child can be bad as they want on a sugar high.  
  It was the same thing with Obamacare.  He wanted to destroy it for a better plan.. but had no better plan detailed or ready.. it would have just led to thousands of Americans dying with no plan available while Republicans pretended to decide on a replacement.  The fact that it was defeated by one vote shows the folly of Republican leadership.
  The idiocy of Trump and his dedicated followers is glaring.  He declared himself the King of The Deal..  the ultimate deal maker.. and his cult followers believed him and repeated it.
  But the truth is, Trump made decisions that hurt America.  Ripping up the deal with Iran showed the world that America couldn't be trusted with keeping to terms of any future business when it had a regime change.
  Ripping up the deal with no replacement or plan in sight (and after giving Iran everything they wanted in the deal) has got to be one of the stupidest things Trump did in his presidency.  Yet his followers and Republican lawmakers still sing to the heavens about the genius of him doing it.