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We say that evil is dark. But this metaphor
is imprecise. Evil is actually intensely bright.

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So painfully bright that people look away
from it. Many even deny its existence.

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Why? Because once people acknowledge evil's
existence, they know that they have to confront it.

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And most people prefer not to confront
evil.

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That is what led to World War II and the death
of 55 million people. Many in the West denied

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the darkness of Nazism. They looked the other
way when that evil could have been stopped,

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and then appeased it as it became stronger.

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We are reliving 1938, the year that democratic
Western nations assured a police state,

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the Nazi regime, that they would do nothing to
prevent its expansion. That year, the British

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Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, went
to Munich to negotiate with Adolf Hitler.

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He left believing Hitler's promises of peace
in exchange for Germany being allowed to annex

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large parts of Czechoslovakia. Upon returning to England, Chamberlain announced "Peace for our time."

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The 2015 agreement between America, Europe,
Russia, China and Iran mirrors 1938.

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The Nazi regime was a police state. The Islamic
Republic of Iran is a police state.

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The Nazis' greatest aim was to exterminate the Jews of
Europe. Iran's greatest aim is to exterminate

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the Jewish state. The West dismissed Hitler
as the Jews' problem. The West dismisses Iran

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as Israel's problem. Nazi Germany hated the
West and its freedoms. The Islamic Republic

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of Iran hates the West and its freedoms. Germany
sought to dominate Europe. Iran seeks to dominate

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the Middle East and the Muslim world.

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And just as Britain and France appeased Nazi
Germany, the same two countries along with

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the United States have chosen to appease Iran.

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In fact, there is considerably less defense
for the Iran agreement -- which awards Iran

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150 billion dollars in currently frozen assets
and the right to keep its nuclear program

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-- than there was for the Munich agreement.
Prior to 1938, Hitler had not publicly proclaimed

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his aim to annihilate Europe's Jews. Yet,
Iran has been proclaiming its intention to

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annihilate the Jewish state for decades. There
were no massive "Death to America" demonstrations

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in Germany as there regularly are in Iran.
In 1938, Germany had not been responsible

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for terror around the world as Iran is now.
Nor was Germany responsible for the death

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of more than a thousand Americans as Iran
has been -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon.

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The Neville Chamberlains of 2015 defend the
agreement with Iran on two grounds

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-- that the only alternative is war and that this
agreement has the capacity to bring Iran into

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the "community of nations."

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The war argument is a falsehood. For three
reasons.

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First, the alternative to this agreement was
continuing and tightening the sanctions

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that were weakening the Iranian regime and greatly
diminishing its ability to fund terror groups

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around the world. Second, because the agreement
so strengthens Iran, it makes war far more likely.

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When evil, expansionist regimes get
richer, they don't spend their wealth on building

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new hospitals. They expand. Third, Iran has
been at war with America for decades.

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And whoever believes that the agreement will
bring Iran into the "community of nations"

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betrays a breath-taking ignorance of the Iranian
regime.

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The Iranian regime is composed of religious
fanatics who are morally indistinguishable

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from ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and all the
other mass murdering Islamist movements.

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The Iranian regime has executed more people
than any country except China and killed more

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than 6,000 Iranians just for being homosexual.
A woman in Iran is not allowed to leave the

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country without the permission of her husband.

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The Iranian regime repeatedly calls for the
extermination of Israel.

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No other country in the world is committed to annihilating another country.

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Iran is already the world's greatest funder
of terror organizations.

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Imagine what it will do with another 150 billion dollars. Imagine what it will do with the removal of the current

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weapons and missile embargo. Imagine what
it will do with its intact nuclear infrastructure.

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This deal allows all three.

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Very few people have a chance to do something
about the greatest evil of their time.

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When it votes on this agreement the American Congress has that chance.

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I'm Dennis Prager