My concern, if we unilaterally abrogated the agreement, is that we would find ourselves in a very weak position to restore the kind of sanctions that forced Iran to negotiate in the first place.

It sounds like to me that enforcing the deal we have is better than not having a deal.

The impact is everywhere.

If that's actually our goal, it seems to me that it would make sense that we would want the nuclear agency that's charged with monitoring this to have the tools that it needs to be able to do its job.

Given what Iran is willing to do, I think it's a lot easier to counter their provocative actions so long as Iran does not have nuclear weapons than it would be to try to cabin Iran if they possessed a nuclear weapon.

Now President Trump says he wants to ignore all of this and instead he has threatened to rip up the Iran nuclear deal. It's not just our deal with Iran.

I take it from this, it is important to bring as much pressure as we can bear on China to try to get China to bring more pressure on North Korea to try to get them to abide by some kind of control agreement.

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When we can't describe even in the most general terms what will happen if you engage in a cyber attack against us, ... deterrence at that moment melts away to nothing.

So I'm hearing you say be sure that they know what we're going to do.

But doesn't that argue, then, even more strongly for a deterrence strategy?

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