Excerpt from National Review
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Did it ever occur to President Obama to ask why he couldn’t just cut a check to the Iranian regime?
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Outrage broke out this week over the revelation that Obama arranged to ship the mullahs piles of cash, worth $400 million and converted into foreign denominations, reportedly in an unmarked cargo plane. The hotly debated question was whether the payment, which the administration attributes to a 37-year-old arms deal, was actually a ransom paid for the release of American hostages Tehran had abducted.
It is a waste of time to debate that point further.