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tsai3904
12-06-2013, 01:13 PM
They write a long, glowing article on Tom Cotton:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/is-this-36-year-old-veteran-the-future-of-the-gop-20131206

Part of the article on his foreign policy stance:


He has shown a willingness to oppose the party's activist wing in notable ways (he voted for the debt-limit deal that ended the government shutdown earlier this year), especially on matters of deep personal conviction, such as foreign policy and national security. On these issues, Cotton stands out for positions that put him on the opposite side of the isolationism of Rand Paul's wing of the party. Earlier this year, when President Obama sought support for military intervention in Syria, he found an unlikely ally in Cotton, who, with another veteran, Rep. Mike Pompeo, penned an op-ed in The Washington Post urging fellow Republicans to support the president. It was a risky move—conservatives online, and even some in his home state, were disappointed. "If you do agree with the president ... that's not positive on any front; that's not good," a former state GOP official says.

But Cotton's friends say it shouldn't have been a surprise. In a television appearance earlier this year, he called the Iraq War a "just and noble war." When a Republican colleague from Michigan, Justin Amash, introduced an amendment to curtail the National Security Agency's data-collection capabilities earlier this year, Cotton took to the floor to slam it—and did so forcefully enough that his hawkish colleagues applauded him afterward. In April, Cotton told Politico: "I think that George Bush largely did have it right: that we can't wait for dangers to gather on the horizon, that we can't let the world's most dangerous people get the world's most dangerous weapons, and that we have to be willing to defend our interests and the safety of our citizens abroad even if we don't get the approval of the United Nations."

phill4paul
12-06-2013, 01:15 PM
This guy should just be disappeared before he can cause any real damage.

Warlord
12-06-2013, 01:18 PM
He's a hardcore neocon and is likely to be a senator

James Madison
12-06-2013, 01:25 PM
In a television appearance earlier this year, he called the Iraq War a "just and noble war.

You served in Iraq and yet you continue to defend a war based on lies that resulted in 4,000+ of your fellow servicemen KIA, tens of thousands of permanent injuries, and thousands more suicides. Your best friends killed and their children having to grow up without a father, just and noble?

I know it's cliche, but Adolf Hitler is the first person that comes to mind.

Snew
12-06-2013, 01:25 PM
Barf.

Probably one of the worst neocons in Washington. War-mongering jerk.

Tywysog Cymru
12-06-2013, 01:45 PM
Maybe there can be a good Libertarian or Constitution candidate in Arkansas if he wins the GOP nomination for US Senate.

Brian4Liberty
12-06-2013, 03:27 PM
Another neo-conservative RINO. Both the left and right wing mainstream media love that!