Most patriotic Americans are "*Damnable Jewish War Mongers To Ignore*" in your eyes.....Thankfully, most Americans don't think like you.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:03 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom Cotton is a religious warmonger to ignore. > > On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 1:50:32 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/ >> 2015/03/26/sen-tom-cotton-tragic-hero-n1976120 >> >> >> >> *Sen. Tom Cotton, Tragic Hero* >> >> Victor Davis Hanson <http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/> >> | Mar 26, 2015 >> >> · >> >> [image: >> http://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2015/72/a6b622c5-7cf6-4266-816a-0b6baca78908.jpg] >> >> The snarky quip attributed to 19th-century French Foreign Minister >> Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -- "It was worse than a crime; it was a >> blunder" -- has recently been making the rounds to deride a letter written >> by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and signed by 46 other senators. >> >> They wrote to the Iranian theocracy that any agreement on nuclear >> proliferation negotiated with President Obama will not constitutionally >> bind the next administration -- unless it is properly ratified by Congress. >> >> Democrats were outraged. They charged that Cotton's letter is a crime, a >> violation of the 216-year-old Logan Act. That law bars unauthorized >> individuals from conducting negotiations with foreign governments. >> >> Even some Republicans sighed that the letter was a political blunder. It >> supposedly plays into President Obama's caricature of right-wing and >> obstructionist conservatives. >> >> In fact, the letter was not a crime or a blunder. >> >> Senators and House members have a long history of freelancing in foreign >> policy. Sometimes they do it wisely, sometimes stupidly. >> >> Republican senators went to great lengths to undermine Woodrow Wilson's >> utopian idea of a League of Nations. Gen. Douglas MacArthur and House >> Minority Leader Joe Martin did their best to sabotage what they thought was >> the reckless policy of then-President Harry Truman concerning Korea and >> Formosa. >> >> Democrats in Congress have been just as eager to warp administration >> foreign policy in claiming their co-equal part in government. >> >> Secretary of State John Kerry is the most outraged of Cotton's critics -- >> and has the most notorious record of trying to undermine presidential >> foreign policy. >> >> As a freshman senator, Kerry traveled to Nicaragua to show solidarity >> with "Comandante" Daniel Ortega -- as a way of opposing then-President >> Reagan's efforts to help the Contras in their resistance to the Sandinista >> communist takeover. Two other Democrats, Sen. Tom Harkin and House Speaker >> Jim Wright, also met with Ortega. >> >> Most unfortunate was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's disastrous 2007 trip to >> Syria to meet with thuggish President Bashar al-Assad. At the time of their >> meeting, Assad was offering assistance to radical Islamic groups that were >> attacking U.S. troops in Iraq. >> >> Cotton and the senators, in contrast, never traveled to hostile >> territory, never met with America's enemies, and never wrote warm personal >> letters to thugs. >> >> But was the Cotton letter a political "blunder"? >> >> Not really. >> >> Obama's effort to negotiate an end to Iranian nuclear proliferation is >> probably bound to fail, given that it greenlights further Iranian nuclear >> enrichment. Obama also has no diplomatic credibility after issuing several >> prior empty deadlines for the Iranians to cease their nuclear enrichment. >> >> Obama's "red lines" to Syria, the failed reset with Russia, the >> lead-from-behind mess in Libya, and the skedaddle from Iraq and Yemen have >> convinced the Iranians that Obama will predictably go soft in negotiations, >> or not expect compliance with any agreement he signs. >> >> Obama's estrangement from both Israel and the Arab Gulf states only >> further reminds the Iranians that American negotiators are not worried >> about their allies' outrage over the proposed deal. >> >> First designated as a sponsor of terrorism in 1984, Iran has been deemed >> by the State department to be the leading state sponsor of terrorism. It >> has openly threatened to destroy Israel. It sent operatives into Iraq to >> kill Americans. It has now carved out Shiite dependencies in Iraq, Lebanon, >> Syria and Yemen. >> >> Given all that, no sane American administration would trust the Iranians >> to give up their nuclear program. Instead, most presidents would have >> continued with tough economic sanctions -- with even tougher embargoes to >> follow if the Iranians did not quit trying to make a bomb. >> >> What Cotton and the senators have done is not criminal or stupid, but >> valuable both for the country and -- ironically -- for the Obama >> administration. >> >> Obama is already mischaracterizing the letter to use it as a wedge with >> the Iranians. He seems to be reminding them that he is the only thing >> standing between them and the anti-Iranian hardliners in the U.S. Senate. >> If Obama somehow manages to scare the Iranians into a treaty, he surely >> will not credit the senators for allowing him the leverage to play good cop >> to Sen. Cotton's bad cop. >> >> More likely, the Munich-like agreement will fail in the face of >> outrageous Iranian demands and an even more outraged American public. >> >> When it does, Obama will then blame Cotton and his Republican colleagues >> for undermining his doomed efforts. Such scapegoating is now old hat for >> Obama, who has blamed factors ranging from George W. Bush to tsunamis for >> his foreign policy and domestic failures. >> >> Republicans, Democrats and all Americans should thank Cotton for >> reminding the Iranians that under the U.S. Constitution, the Senate must >> ratify treaties with foreign powers. Cotton will get no credit if the >> Iranians get worried over his letter, relent and offer needed concessions. >> >> But Cotton will endure plenty of blame if Iranian negotiators walk away >> in fury because a skeptical U.S. Senate would have to approve any >> sweetheart deal that they pulled over on Obama. >> >> In other words, Cotton is not a blunderer -- he is a classic lose/lose >> tragic hero. >> >> >> >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------ >> Posted by: "beowulf" <[email protected]> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Visit Your Group >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmZzQ4dnE2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MjczODYzNTI-> >> >> - New Members >> >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/members/all;_ylc=X3oDMTJnbGhmNGswBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2bWJycwRzdGltZQMxNDI3Mzg2MzUy> >> 1 >> >> [image: Yahoo! 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