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Cotton: Moreover we have to stand up to Iran’s attempts to drive for regional dominance. They already control Tehran increasingly they control Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad and now Sana’a as well.
He is not confused about the geography of Iran - Tehran is certainly in Iran.
The Leftists are confused about the history of Iran.
They already control Tehran increasingly they control Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad and now Sana’a as well. They do all that without a nuclear weapon. imagine what they would do with a nuclear weapon.
"They" would be the Islamists that "took control" of Tehran (Capitol City) during the Islamic Revolution and turned it into a Islamic theocracy headed by a Supreme Leader.
Cotton is correct about the other Capitol Cities in his statement -- they are also being taken over by Iranian Islamists. I guess I'm not surprised that Think Progress is in support of Islamists, it appears to be a growing trend among Leftists.
He is not confused about the geography of Iran - Tehran is certainly in Iran.
The Leftists are confused about the history of Iran.
They already control Tehran increasingly they control Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad and now Sana’a as well. They do all that without a nuclear weapon. imagine what they would do with a nuclear weapon.
"They" would be the Islamists that "took control" of Tehran (Capitol City) during the Islamic Revolution and turned it into a Islamic theocracy headed by a Supreme Leader.
Cotton is correct about the other Capitol Cities in his statement -- they are also being taken over by Iranian Islamists. I guess I'm not surprised that Think Progress is in support of Islamists, it appears to be a growing trend among Leftists.
It's like being outraged about Brits controlling London.
The other cities are voluntary allies with Iran, so how would a nuclear weapon change that?
His inexperience is showing, but that's cool. He will probably be a good politician one day.
Iran does control Tehran obviously. They are exerting increasing control over Damascus, since Assad increasingly relies on various wings of Iran's military and paramilitary for protecting his control of Syria. Hezbollah almost totally controls Beirut, and the Iranian government is Hezbollah's master and publicly so. And Shia militias numbering in the hundreds of thousands, under de facto command of the Iranian Revolutionary guard, is increasingly pushing ISIS back and retaking control of Baghdad, Tikrit and Samarra...and by retaking, I mean giving back Shia control, since Al-Maliki had already had most of that under Shia control and was being sourced with weapons, material and logistics from Tehran.
So not only does Tom Cotton know perfectly well what is going on, he clearly knows better than the moron who wrote that grasping for straws nonsense about geography, considering the real geography of the Middle East is not the lines drawn by British cartographers in 1919, but the on the ground, current reality of which tribe or sect of Islam controls which patches of dirt, and who is pulling the strings in the various capitols and major cities.
Cotton's pearl clutching and geographical knowledge are the least of reasons to be alarmed. The man believes that we should all be so lucky to be governed by our betters and view's democracy as a hindrance to the truly ambitious.
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"Cotton insists that the Founders were wise not to put too much faith in democracy, because people are inherently selfish, narrow-minded, and impulsive. He defends the idea that the country must be led by a class of intellectually superior officeholders whose ambition sets them above other men. Though Cotton acknowledges that this might seem elitist, he derides the Federalists’ modern critics as mushy-headed and naïve."
Plus, his conservative absolutism offers no room for compromise and borders on straight-up sociopathic.
The love conservatives have for him comes from his sticking it to the President. That's petty, but fine. I'd be extremely concerned if a majority of voters in Arkansas, much less republican's nationwide agree with most of his ideology.
Wow, so now his thesis on the Federalist Papers, where he does little but accurately echo Hamilton, Madison and Jay, is now some sort of politically damaging thing? Really?
Do we have any essays from Cotton in grade school, so we can crush on him for thinking batman is more awesome than Superman, when we all know they are fictitious, but could give us insight to Cotton being detached from reality?
WE SHOULDN"T PUT TOO MUCH FAITH IN DEMOCRACY. Madison, Jefferson, Jay, Adams, Washington, almost all of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers they all riffed from, etc...ALL SAID THE SAME THING. Men are selfish, flawed creatures, so trusting large mobs of them to always do what is in the best interest of the whole is a fool's errand. There are thousands and thousands of pages of philosophy and political science text dedicated to this very notion. FFS, classic liberalism (currently libertarianism) is founded on the principle that too much centralized power is bad because it always evolves towards tyranny, not away from it. Why? Because men are selfish, flawed creatures, and because power corrupts.
You should be praising Tom Cotton for having believed that at one point, and especially praising him if he still does. It's a proper level of caution to keep a very watchful, distrustful eye on everyone with power over others, especially when so much nearly blind faith is held that these people of power always wants what's best for us.
And I'm sorry, is the junior Senator from Arkansas now some threat to Hillary's run in 2016? Why all this attention to a guy who has been a Senator for a whopping 2 months?
Stink progress? No thanks.
Are you saying they don't control Tehran?
It's like saying, "USA now controls Washington."
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