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.
.@StateDept Special Forces #RLTW pic.twitter.com/RUDBTIiOiI
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 20, 2015
.@StateDept A-10 Warthog pic.twitter.com/NJqLlzBlrR
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 20, 2015
.@StateDept Forward Air Controller pic.twitter.com/w8L4kpJalF
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 20, 2015
.@StateDept C-130 pic.twitter.com/cVuijxIYdx
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 20, 2015
.@StateDept Carrier Strike Group pic.twitter.com/Hbfi8pFov4
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 20, 2015
.@StateDept 101st Airborne pic.twitter.com/kDk49g5iwu
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 20, 2015
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
