[Impy]

I find you very suspicious my newly arrived friend. Supporter of Mandela as well are you?

[kobald]

The basic problem with Cotton is the fact that he has a huge blind spot that severely compromises his judgment:

Cotton, a U.S. army veteran, also criticized those who compare controversies involving the Internal Revenue Services and the National Security Agency.
“The IRS is full of political partisans like Lois Lerner, who violated their mandates by targeting American citizens for constitutional abuses,” Cotton said. “The NSA by contrast is full of career military officers who follow the law by targeting foreign terrorists to protect American citizens.

The reality, of course, is that the two scandals are identical in their essential nature, and symptomatic of the same underlying rot in our government.

Cotton isn't stupid; he would surely laugh at the notion that putting on a lab coat automatically makes one smart or that putting on a tuxedo automatically makes one cultured. Unfortunately, his emotional biases blind him to the equally self-evident fact that putting on a uniform doesn't automatically make one patriotic.