The news came that New York’s Senate delegation is split on the Iran deal: Senator Schumer opposes it, and Senator Gillibrand plans to vote for it.  I called Senator Gillibrand's office to find out her reasoning and was directed to a document that she penned to explain her decision. What's remarkable in it is not the positives that she sees in the deal, but the negatives she ignores. With this deal, she tells us, "Iran has signed on to a sufficiently verifiable and enforceable deal that cuts off all paths to a bomb and has its entire nuclear supply chain closely monitored for years to come."  What she forgets to mention is the duration, the number of those "years to come."  Senator Gillibrand, "the years to come" are not 15 billion years, and not even a paltry 15 million years, but just 15 years, which is merely the blink of an eye. Senator Gillibrand, you should have simply ignored all the agreed-to goings-on...(Read Full Post)