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President Obama’s Iran nuclear arms deal a non-achievement

President Obama’s Iran nuclear arms deal a non-achievement

William Russell

Today I read in disbelief an article, published Nov. 24 in the National Review, about President Obama's nuclear arms deal with Iran. Recently, there has not been much mention in the conventional media about the heated controversy that rightly surrounded Obama's high-priority efforts to reach some kind of tough agreement. But anyone who, over the many months of seemingly endless negotiations, followed the news reports and, in particular, heard the president's trademark professorial mini-lectures about what he insisted were highly compelling elements in the plan, should be disturbed to learn that the plan is little more than a collection of ideas for hope and change.

What has come to light is that what President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have touted as a great diplomatic triumph is actually something quite different.

True pluralism and the belief in truth
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True pluralism and the belief in truth

Richard Stith
"True pluralism demonstrates respect not only for the existence of different faiths and traditions, but also for the religious certainty of those who adhere to a particular faith."
— NewBostonPost Publisher Tina McCormick

The above quote from Tina's message is absolutely correct. But I believe she must go one step further: One does not respect another community if one actively debunks the existence of that which most concerns it. Thus any multiculturalism which opposes the possibility of truth is in reality a uniculturalism that seeks to destroy every single religious or other belief community except for Western skepticism.

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