Tom Cotton Has Some Advice For The State Department

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In a tweet the US State department asked for “solutions you think are critical to countering violent extremism.”

This is the State Department so I’m assuming they do not mean countering the TEA Party, or Right to Life, or Right to Work, that sort of thing.

Senator Tom Cotton correctly took them to mean the ISIS variety of extremism, and made time to Tweet back a few suggestions of his own.

 

Whether you want to believe it or not, in that part of the world force is one of the few things that earns genuine respect. So we could, through use of force, and with extreme prejudice, stop ISIS and earn the respect of other nations in the region. But the respect only lasts a long for as long as you are perceived to be a threat and the American Government, particularity under the current President, is not currently perceived as a long term threat to anyone or anything…anywhere outside our own borders.

H/T Twitchy

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    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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