Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton slammed President Obama on Sunday for his administration’s response to a string of recent terror attacks in Orlando, Turkey and Bangladesh.
“I think the first thing we have to do is talk less and act more,” Cotton said of the Obama administration’s current counterterrorism strategy. “The president often presents our problems with the Islamic State as a [public relations] problem or communications problem. When a politician says that, it is almost always a reality problem.”
“It seems like every time the Islamic State commits a terrorist atrocity, the president or his senior officials announce a new policy change,” he said, adding that the administration has announced decisions to strike new targets soon after an attack.
“At a minimum, we should take stock of all the policies we might pursue after a terrorist attack and we should pursue all of them right now before there’s another attack,” Cotton said.
The Arkansas Republican, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Intelligence Committees, has been a leading critic of Obama’s foreign policy and his strategy to eliminate Islamic State radicals.
Cotton is rumored to be on the vice presidential short list of Republican hopeful Donald Trump.
