The Patriot Post® · Tom Cotton's Inconvenient Truths

Jonah Goldberg: “It has been an Iranian tradition since 1979 to end Friday prayers with chants of ‘Death to America!’ In a purely rational world, that would be all one needed to know that Iran is not a reliable negotiating partner. Alas, we do not live in such a world. But there’s more evidence. Iran, according to our State Department, has been the chief exporter of terrorism for the last three decades. … So, obviously, the greatest villain in the world today is … Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). He led the effort to get 46 other senators to sign a letter to the Iranian government explaining that any deal with Iran would require congressional approval. The New York Daily News branded them all ‘TRAITORS’ on its front page. Isn’t it amazing how even vaguely questioning the patriotism of liberals is an outrage beyond the borders of acceptable debate, but branding 47 GOP senators ‘traitors’ is treated as at least forgivable bombast? … The White House had to admit that Cotton was right; the deal as it stands would be a ‘nonbinding’ agreement. And, therefore, as the letter explains, ‘The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen.’ … This premature admission is politically inconvenient for the Obama administration because it wants to get the United Nations to approve the deal, making it a fait accompli. It hoped to get to that point without anyone noticing. The Cotton letter is not mutinous or traitorous or unconstitutional. It is inconvenient, and apparently being inconvenient in the age of Obama is all it takes to be called unpatriotic.”