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GOP Senator Chides Trump on Iran Policy

President Trump has had a challenging week and it is about to get a bit more turbulent.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) believes the lack of action against Iran will eventually lead to an attack against a U.S. manned vessel.

Strong Words

The response to President Trump’s canceling of the strike against Iran has been mixed.

He has been applauded by some for not entrenching the United States deeper while being called weak by others.

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is among those that believe this is showing our weak side to the Iranians.

Cotton stated, “Obviously I think retaliatory strikes were warranted when we’re talking about foreign vessels on the high seas.

“I think they were warranted against an American unmanned aircraft.”

“What I see is Iran steadily marching up the escalation chain it started out with threats, then went to attack on vessels and ports, went to attack on vessels at sea, now it’s an unmanned American aircraft.

“I fear that if Iran doesn’t have a firm set of boundaries drawn around its behavior, we’re going to see an attack on a U.S. ship or U.S. manned aircraft.”

Rock and a Hard Place

To be honest, the situation for Trump is about as lose/lose as it gets.

He ran on a platform of getting the United States out of the Middle East.

Any attack against Iran will surely escalate tensions if not start an all-out war.

However, allowing a country to attack ships and aircraft without going punished is all but encouraging that activity to continue, and that is the worry here.

Iran is already facing sanctions, so they could probably care less if the United States hits them with more of them.

In the coming days, we will see how effective this approach is with Iran and while the upside is good, the downside is outright horrific.

Will they feel so emboldened by a lack of military response by the United States that Iran actually dares attack a U.S. ship or manned aircraft?

To this point, Trump has been very clear that if anything such as that happens, he will take massive action and obliterate Iran.

We can only hope that threat works because if Iran does, in fact, carry out a strike that results in the loss of American life, Trump will never be able to recover from it.

Source: Fox News

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