Former President Barack Obama‘s reemergence is looming over President Donald Trump‘s peace deal with Iran as the incumbent tries to sell his deal to an increasingly skeptical public after the nearly four-month war.Obama’s return to the headlines as he prepares to open his presidential library in Chicago on Friday has heightened comparisons between his Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and Trump’s, a memorandum of understanding for which was announced but not disclosed last weekend.In fact, Obama told ABC’s Good Morning America this week that he is “doubtful” Trump’s prospective deal “is going to be significantly different” or “a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place.”
“It’s a reminder that on a lot of difficult foreign policy problems, the notion that we can just bully our way or bomb our way to solutions may sometimes seem appealing, but the fact of the matter is that taking the time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of coming up with deals that don’t solve 100% of the problem but solve 80%, 90% of the problem while avoiding the necessity of going to war,” Obama said.
He added, “You’d think we would’ve learned that lesson by now. But it seems like every so often we have to relearn that lesson again.”
