CBS' Schieffer To Tom Cotton: Will You Write A Letter To N. Korea Too?

[kpete]

At one point, Schieffer asked the senator why he hadn't reached out to the U.S.' other nuclear adversaries, too.

"Senator, are you planning to contact any other of our adversaries around the country?" Schieffer asked. "For example, are you planning to check with the North Koreans to make sure that they know that any deal has to be approved by the Congress?"

Cotton smiled when Schieffer brought up North Korea.

“Right now I and most every other senator is focused on stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” he responded. “That’s why it’s so important that we communicated this message straight to Iran, because they’re not hearing it from Geneva.”

Cotton returned to the matter of North Korea later in the interview. He echoed an argument former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made in a recent op-ed on Iran: prior deals with the North Koreans failed to stop them from developing a nuclear bomb, so a deal with Iran wouldn't likely hold up, either.

"Now the world has to live with the consequences of a nuclear North Korea," Cotton said. "I don't want the world to live with the consequences of a nuclear Iran."


VIDEO & MORE:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bob-schieffer-asks-tom-cotton-will-you-write-north-korea

[GreatGazoo]

1. Borowitz went there last week:

Kim Jong-un Feels Snubbed by Absence of Letter from Republicans

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/kim-jong-un-feels-snubbed-by-absence-of-letter-from-republicans

[underpants]

2. SUVs don't run on kimchi

Before the war a friend (this wasn't an argument ) asked out loud about N. Korea. That was my direct answer.

Look SUVs don't run on kimchi. There is something in the ground there (NK) and something in the ground THERE (Iraq/Middle East) and they aren't the same thing.


I hope that doesn't sound demeaning. I was just trying to make a point.

[countryjake]

3. kickety