Tom Cotton will try to block Iran deal at any cost. He’d prefer war..
what does Cotton want? Not war, he insisted. But military action that is not war … that he’d be good with. Calling it war is a false choice, according to Cotton, but bombing Iran could be in a separate category. Because Iran would totally not respond badly to being bombed by the United States.
his alternatives are some fantasy of getting a better deal—the better deal that the Bush administration and years of harsh sanctions have not gotten—or the fantasy that war would not be the outcome of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities.
But it’s just as likely that he is, like so many in the Bush administration, happy to lie to sell war to American voters.