Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was a guest on Hugh Hewitt’s podcast this week and didn’t miss the opportunity to share some sharp criticism of President Joe Biden’s actions in the Middle East.
“[President] Joe Biden is weak and pathetic and cowardly,” Cotton said on Hugh Hewitt’s podcast. “You don’t deter people like the ayatollahs who govern Iran by going on TV and saying, Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t. You do it by holding at risk and ultimately destroying or killing the things and the people they hold most dear, like the Revolutionary Guard shock troops.
“Iran is laughing at us and high-fiving because they’ve had a decadeslong strategy of using proxies throughout the Middle East to attack us so they can deny that it was them. And what do we do when we only attack Iranian proxies? We validate their proxy strategy.”
“Unfortunately, this is the result of eight years of failed policy of Barack Obama and his understudy, Joe Biden. Or, I’m sorry, 11 years,” Cotton told Hewitt. “Eight years under Barack Obama, and three years under Joe Biden.
“They have viewed Iran as a normal nation that has legitimate grievances against America, and if we would simply conciliate with them and appease them and grant them one-sided concessions, Iran would pull in its horns and begin behaving like a normal nation, and everything would be wonderful again in the Middle East.”
“It’s not the case. Iran has been an unappeasable enemy of the United States for 45 years.”
Audio/transcript: @SenTomCotton on the necessary response to Iran’s killing and wounding of our our troops: https://t.co/vScnQkjxVz
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) January 30, 2024
