Tom Cotton Seems Confused About The Basic Geography Of Iran

[hue]

Source: THINKPROGRESS

But when asked by Face the Nation’s Bob Schieffer what better outcome Cotton expects if a White House-led deal falls through, Cotton seemed to make a key geographic mistake, suggesting that Tehran, the capital of Iran, might be controlled by anyone other than Iranian leaders:

Schieffer: What do you want to happen here? What is your alternative here? Let’s say that the deal falls through, then what?

Cotton: Well as Prime Minister Netanyahu said, the alternative to a bad deal is a better deal. The Iranians frequently bluff to walk away from the table. if they bluff this week, call their bluff. The Congress stands ready to impose much more severe sanctions. Moreover we have to stand up to Iran’s attempts to drive for regional dominance. They already control Tehran increasingly they control Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad and now Sana’a as well. They do all that without a nuclear weapon. imagine what they would do with a nuclear weapon.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/15/3633912/tom-cotton-alarmed-capital-iran-controlled-iran/

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Dipshit saw a chance as did the other 46 to prove to their constituents that they hate Obama

as much as the idiot racists who vote for them do, that is what this is about.

Some of them are those christians who actually believe that not only is Jesus returning but returning for their sorry asses and nobody else...

wow

[applegrove]

2. He's another dumb bunny the neoconservative can control to

control foreign policy.

[Blue Owl]

3. Tom doesn't cotton to critical thinking

[Bartlet]

4. Wow

who would have thought the Iranians would be in control of Tehran....their fucking capitol.

A 2 month Jr. Senator should learn to keep his mouth shut and listen instead of pretending he has anything of value to say. He was a shit officer in the military, he's an ever bigger shit as a Senator. What were you people in Arkansas thinking sending this uninformed infant to the Senate?

[Kablooie]

16. We should drive all the Muslims out of Iran. That will fix the problem!

and if we then install an American oil company as the government it will be perfect!

[lark]

28. He's probably thinking you are exactly right!

Clueless and idiotic person that he is. He also probably thinks we can do this without Americans dying in droves, just like Iraq was to last a few weeks and be relatively bloodless. NOT!!!

[Euphoria]

5. Harvard's acceptance standards

are getting lower and lower.

[msongs]

6. his statement is exactly correct but don't let that stop the critics. there are lots of other

reasons to be critical of him.

[magical thyme]

7. correct in that they control their own capitol?

What does he think? That because he now bears the nickname Tehran Tom that *he* should be in control their?

[jamzrockz]

8. And how the hgll

do they control Sana? Not because we lost control of Yemen means the Iranians wrestled it from us. The people living there had enough of the puppet president we had there and kicked him out. That doesn't automatically mean Iran was behind it

Also they are having more influence in Iraq and Syria because they are part of the solution and not part of the problem. Their effort have liberated more cities from ISIS than the thousands of our airstrikes couldn't do for little Kobani,

[JonLP24]

20. Good point

There is no evidence Iran has backed the tribal Houthi rebels.

[BlueStater]

9. Iran controlling their own capital is an example of their "regional dominance"? n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Cotton thinks the US should control all Mideast capitals. If you don't agree, you don't love America

The Iranians control Tehran! The US should control Tehran!

Once you get into this basic mind frame, everything else this shithead says makes sense.

[Tempest]

11. Dumbest post of the day

In the context of the point he was trying to make, he was exactly wrong.

[herding cats]

12. If we take it literally then he's saying we need to stand up to them for controlling their capital.

It's no better viewed from that angle. Worse actually.

[renegade000]

23. yes, except for this pesky thing called conversational pragmatics

Words imply things beyond their literal meanings and there is an intention behind every utterance. It's unclear exactly why Mr. Cotton felt the need to inform everyone of the obvious fact that the (now relatively long-standing) Iranian government "already" controls the capital of Iran. He could in fact be utterly clueless, or maybe he was just name-dropping cities in an attempt to sound more intelligent and to make the Iranian "threat" seem more dire. In any case, I think it is worthy of derision.

[LanternWaste]

26. Luxembourg is a greater threat than I realized...

Hence, any country which controls their own capitol is regionally dominant? Luxembourg is a greater threat than I realized...

[Plucketeer]

13. Tom can SEE Tehran from his front porch!!!

Gall-dangit, with the likes of Tom 'n Joni Ernst now in office, ol' Laffingstok Louie Gohmert or Crumb-worthy Graham might not shine as brightly as they have. It's heartening to have "solidarity" in DC - especially between the ears of conservative lawmakers (or is it lawbreakers?).

[kelliekat44]

14. Why do they need or want a nuke if they can do all that without one? nt

[turbinetree]

15. Really---- what your alternative

We have a journalist asking a republican what's your alternative to a letter and the republican gives a geography lesson on not even knowing that Tehran is in Iran and he's a senator and he has a college degree---really.

What the public should have gotten in my opinion was:

Do you know or have you read the LOGAN ACT and give us a example or explain to the public as to why it doesn't apply to you and your fellow republicans? Here let me read the 1799 Act, and I will let you respond.

Or a better yet have the next question like:

Do you Mr. Cotton or any of your other republican "friends " in the senate including the majority leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell know something or anything about the, you know Constitution, do you and your fellow senator's that signed on to your letter completely disregard Article II Section 2, let me read it to you and what do you have to say to this?
Nope, nothing of the sort

[drynberg]

18. Yes, a much better question for Senator Cotton...or the questioner could just ask,

Why shouldn't you and 46 R senators be charged with the Logan Act?

[turbinetree]

27. I whole hardly agree

With you train of thought, this media is a without a doubt one of the most disingenuous I have seen in my life, they have failed and every y Sunday we get the the same regurgitated questions with the same face same answers and the means of hypocrisy, and no accountability

[cynzke]

17. Wait A Minute....

What about Baghdad? We spent over 10 years in Iraq, billions of dollars and Iran controls it now? And we want to keep more troops there?

[Madmiddle]

19. From everything I've been reading lately about Harvard graduates

it sure is churning out idiots. Got money, go to Harvard come out a Harvard bot. Their classes of higher learning put out Republican'ts. My point is, if Dubya made it through Harvard, their standards are at a fifth grade level. The fact that a lot of Congressman and Senators come out of that school, speaks volumes for the concentration of outright stupidity in DC...

[JackRiddler]

21. "Imagine what they would do with a nuclear weapon"

The U.S. has a few, I've heard, so I guess in this fictional world of his they would lose control of Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad and Sana'a as well.

[father founding]

24. another blond joke

Whats the difference between a blond and a republican ? NOTHING

[Orsino]

29. Obama's failure to secure the border has allowed Mexicans to overrun Mexico City.

Thanks, Obama.