thankfully it's his kind of ilk that end up face down in the middle east. On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 4:36:58 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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. 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