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November 25, 2013 | | YOU ARE NO CHURCHILL, BIBI Despite having no better alternative, it didn't take very long for Bill Kristol to start comparing the Iran nuclear deal to Munich—in fact, Benjamin Netanyahu's minions already have been on a smear campaign for months. For Netanyahu and his allies, writes The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart, it's always 1938 and Netanyahu is Winston Churchill while his appeasing allies are Neville Chamberlain. Making no excuses for Iran's regime, the Nazi comparison is laughable—Iran has no military strength nor the ideological power. It's been said that Netanyahu doesn't know history—and he clearly doesn't know Iran either. Plus, Michael Tomasky calls the Iranian deal a "momentous leap forward," despite the neocon resistance, while Eli Lake calls the deal "dangerous." NOT SO FAST Don't take out the party hats, the Iran nuclear deal is not finalized yet. The interim six-month pact will temporarily freeze much of Iran's nuclear-weapons production, but U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged Sunday that enforcing the agreement could be more difficult than reaching it in the first place. "The next phase, let me be clear, will be even more difficult, and we need to be honest about it," he said. Kerry and the rest of the world powers hope the interim agreement will keep Iran's nuclear program in check for the next month while staving off harsh new sanctions—and until a longer-term deal can be hammered out. BRRR A harsh winter storm continued its push through Texas on Sunday, with a mix of rain, light freezing rain, and light sleet expected in the northern part of the state. Luckily, temperatures are not expected to be as low as the initial forecast. The Arctic mass is expected to head south and east, with parts of Oklahoma under a winter-storm warning on Monday. At least eight deaths have been blamed on the storm as it tore through California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Thanksgiving travel is already affected, with more than 300 flights canceled at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. TRAGEDY The Connecticut state attorney will release a report Monday that will give a clear timeline of events inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 20, 2012, when 20 children and six adults were shot to death by Adam Lanza. Although this report is expected to focus on the 911 calls to establish the timeline of the shooting, it is unlikely to shed much light—and it won't give any recommendations. The first 911 call came in before 9:36 a.m., and dispatch indicated that officers were inside the school by 9:44 a.m. But the new report won't answer all questions about the shooting. For instance, Nicole Hockley, the mother of 6-year-old victim Dylan Hockley, said "I would love to know why—but I think that's a question that is never going to be answered—and I don't expect that to be in the police report." TERRIFYING In Syria's Kurdistan, The Daily Beast's Jamie Dettmer faced something foreign: an armed standoff over his fate. Dettmer had been smuggled into Syria's Kurdistan to investigate claims that the Kurds are working with Assad, although the Kurds have mainly remained neutral and they don't want to be facing their own Aleppo. But that didn't mean the Kurds wouldn't defend themselves—or a foreign journalist within their ranks. | | 
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