NEW YORK SUN
Editorial Board
August 7, 2015

The announcement by Senator Schumer that he will oppose the Iran appeasement is his finest hour. He is reported by the Times to have retreated to his office with a yellow pad and to have written out his own statement. It’s an admirable one — and well-timed, too, coming, as it does, but a day after the President sought to suggest that opponents of the deal are war-mongers and of the ilk that took us to war in Iraq. One can call Mr. Schumer a lot of things, but war-monger isn’t one of them….Mr. Obama’s mocking of Israel this week for standing alone among all the nations against this agreement was offensive, as several newspapers noted. It was enough to make any fair-minded person say, “Wait a minute, Israel is going to be the first target Iran will attack with any atomic bomb.” Mr. Schumer’s announcement was forwarded to us by a Spanish-speaking friend with a note saying, “si no ahora, cuando?” (if not now, when?) READ MORE