msnbc | Look, we’ve seen this play before, and we have a pretty good
idea how it turns out. When a right-wing neoconservative tells Americans
that we can launch a new military offensive in the Middle East, it
won’t last long, and the whole thing will greatly improve our national
security interests, there’s reason for some skepticism.
Tom Cotton – the guy who told voters last year that ISIS and Mexican drug cartels might team up to attack Arkansans – wants to bomb Iran, so he’s telling the public how easy it would be.
What the senator didn’t talk about yesterday is what happens
after the bombs fall – or even what transpires when Iran shoots back
during the campaign. Are we to believe Tehran would just accept the
attack and move on?
Similarly, Cotton neglected to talk about the broader
consequences of an offensive, including the likelihood that airstrikes
would end up accelerating Iran’s nuclear ambitions going forward.
There’s also the inconvenient detail that the Bush/Cheney administration weighed a military option against Iran, but it concluded
that “a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be a bad
idea – and would only make it harder to prevent Iran from going nuclear
in the future.”
But don’t worry, America, Tom Cotton thinks this would all be
easy and we could drop our bombs without consequence. What could
possibly go wrong?
