Those Neocons have been beating war drums for decades….against Iran a stable in Neocon circles….more recently Venezuela……but now they have a new (fairly new) opponent and a subject for their hatred…..that would be China.
And now the darling of the Neocons….Tom Cotton of Arkansas has been giving lip service to all the enemies or perceived enemies…..the Neocons have targeted…..
Cotton now has picked on the mantle of China basher……a dream come true for him….he now is front and center in the bashing….before he was just a small voice within the Neocom elite….
Now he can roar for he has the president as a ally……
A long time ago—during the 2010s—a young, Harvard-educated veteran from the Deep South crossed paths with Washington’s most senior Republican intellectual.
His name was Tom Cotton. His mentor’s: Bill Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard.
The wunderkind Arkansas senator has been a national security hawk for decades. In China, he’s found his grandest foe yet.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., arrives in the Capitol for the Senate Republicans lunch on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)A long time ago—during the 2010s—a young, Harvard-educated veteran from the Deep South crossed paths with Washington’s most senior Republican intellectual.
His name was Tom Cotton. His mentor’s: Bill Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard.
The duo are said to have struck up a correspondence in the early 2000s, when Cotton was at Harvard Law. Kristol was at the height of his powers; Cotton was just amassing his. As revealed in Molly Ball’s definitive profile, ten years later, they began meeting in person, at the District’s Mayflower hotel. The venue — at Connecticut and K, where John F. Kennedy had an apartment and John Bolton sat through his exit interview—matched the mood, and the anxiety, of the Republican Party. Lavish, no doubt, but perhaps also past its prime.
By his early thirties, Cotton’s Stakhanovite discipline had yielded a dazzling array of accomplishments. Double Harvard (undergrad and law), protégé of the influential West Coast Straussians at the Claremont Institute, associate at the conservative Gibson & Dunn law firm followed by a stint for Republican superlawyer Charles J. Cooper, service as an Army infantry officer with a Bronze Star to boot, and for fun, a dabble in blogging for the not-so-underground Power Line and a lucrative victory lap at McKinsey.
Tom Cotton Has Been Waiting Years for This
A dangerous voice……these are same types that lead the US into a failed invasion and occupation of Iraq…..hopefully NO one will not listen to the fantasies spread by this person and his ilk.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I can’t stand Cotton. He’s nothing but a toadie riding the coattails of Trump. Unfortunately though, as you said, he’s a loudmouth dangerous one.
He is becoming the face of Neocon regime change BS….sadly chuq
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Get to know this name (if you don’t already)! … Tom Cotton Has Been Waiting Years for This. A dangerous voice … these are same types that lead the US into a failed invasion and occupation of Iraq … hopefully NO one will not listen to the fantasies spread by this person and his ilk.”
Much appreciated chuq
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They are wonderful….well done chuq
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Young hawks like him could be the future of American politics. I hope not!
Best wishes, Pete.
He is been a loud mouth since he got to the Senate….few listen chuq