Today in Moronic Memes #4

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I'm becoming convinced that a significant part of our electorate inhabits an alternate universe where rules of logic don't apply.  The Iran nuclear deal seems to bring out nut-jobs, well the nuclear deal and nearly everything else Obama has done, but I digress. 

It's one thing to believe that this wasn't the best deal we could've gotten (a plausible albeit dubious conclusion), but it is quite another to call it treasonous.  This is how the the Constitution defines treason:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.  

So how does the Iran deal rise to treason again?  Working out a deal to limit nuclear capacity in exchange for sanctions that were ending anyway and unfreezing money that was theirs to begin with doesn't seem up to snuff.  Doesn't the sales of weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages under the Reagan Administration come closer to actually meeting the standard of treason than negotiating a deal?

The other problem with these rabid deal bashers is that much of the rhetoric around negotiating with Iran has to do with the security of Israel.  Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but I don't live in Israel.  I'm an American, I live in America, so I really don't care about the security of Israel anymore than say Switzerland, Jordan, or Uganda.  As an American, if you view Israel's security as more important than ours then you can't consider yourself a patriot at all.