Hope is not a national security strategy

The Iran nuclear deal is a break from decades of bipartisan consensus, opposed by two of the highest ranking Democrats in the Senate and in several key respects violates the current administration’s own policy. This is an important deal. This is a bad deal. The Senate should reject it.

Then-Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican, famously declared during the Democratic Truman administration we must stop “partisan politics at the water's edge.” The senator then helped lead a bipartisan coalition that instituted the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and NATO. Those...