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Tom Cotton

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 13, 1977

What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and that Iran and Russia cannot be granted a sphere of influence in Syria, and that we will not sit down at the negotiating table to help broker Assad's victory in this fight.

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There are still plenty of fighting forces inside of Syria who want to see Assad go. We should have been helping them from the very beginning.

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If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation.

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Unless we get serious about addressing Iran's regional ambitions in places like Syria, then our allies are never going to be confident that we have a strategy for the region.

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I spent several months patrolling Al Dora district in Baghdad in 2006 with the 101st Airborne. It's a tough neighborhood. There's a lot of militias operating there, including a lot of Shiite militias, which are backed by Iran.

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We have taught Iran's leaders and the world a very bad lesson: that there is a price on the head of Americans to be held hostage.

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My heart goes out, as does every American, when I see the videotape of Jason Rezaian and Amir Hekmati and Saeed Abedini coming back to their families.

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Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion.

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It's clearly the intent of the Islamic State to strike us here in the United States. And that's why we have to go on offense in the war against the Islamic State to fight them where they are before they fight us here in the United States.

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We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.

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We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

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The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.

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Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

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I will say that there are genuine and serious concerns about what Hillary Clinton did before the Benghazi attacks, during them, and after them. I think her extremely careless handling of classified information, to use FBI Director Jim Comey's term, disqualifies her from being president.

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I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing.

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What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe.

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The forces that led to radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, can ultimately only be defeated by moderate Muslims around the globe, countries like U.A.E. that have led the fight within their own border to promote tolerance.

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The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries - the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan - do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it.

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We want the president to act to keep America safe.

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The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

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