Showing posts with label Tom Cotton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Cotton. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Why even the idea that neocon Senator Tom Cotton might run Trump’s CIA is scary

In a recent profile of Tom Cotton, the Wall Street Journals Jason Willick characterizedthe 40-year-old junior Republican senator from Arkansas as “hawkish and realistic” and described his worldview as “tinged with idealism.” Yet it was unclear what the unabashedly Strangelovian Cotton did to earn such a charitable description, as he rattled off a series of opinions that amounted to a call for world war without end.

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Monday, April 06, 2015

GOP Senator Tom Cotton vows to block final Iran agreement

US Republican Senator Tom Cotton, known for his close links to a neoconservative group, says he will leave no stone unturned in order to sabotage a final nuclear agreement between the P5+1 and Iran.

According to reports, Cotton received one million dollars from the Emergency Committee for Israel, a neoconservative group associated with Israel lobby, just before the last US election. The group was founded in mid-2010 by William [Bill] Kristol, a US neoconservative political analyst.

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