BREITBART
by Joel B. Pollak
July 22, 2015

On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered a strident speech on the Senate floor supporting the Iran nuclear deal. The speech is very important, for three reasons. First, Durbin is one of the Senate’s most powerful Democrats. Second, Durbin owes his career to the “pro-Israel” movement, which helped him unseat an anti-Israel congressman in 1982, giving his speech extra weight (or irony). And third, Durbin’s address lays out the talking points that will define the Obama administration’s message over the next two months in Congress. Deal vs. war. The most important part of Durbin’s argument is the claim that war is the only alternative to the Iran deal. That is a profound shifting of the goalposts. READ MORE