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Only the Strong

Reversing the Left's Plot to Sabotage American Power

by Tom Cotton
Tony Messano
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New York Times bestselling author and conservative U.S. Senator Tom Cotton exposes the progressive left's decades-long plot to sabotage American power, culminating in a behind-the-scenes look at the dangerous failures of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden—and explains what we must do to recover America's strength.
If it seems to you that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have weakened America and emboldened our enemies, you're not alone. But Senator Cotton explains that their failures aren't just incompetence or bad luck—it's decline by design.

Only the Strong reveals the untold inside story of how progressive ideologues and Democratic politicians abandoned the American tradition of strength, pride, and honor. From the beginning, early progressives like Woodrow Wilson repudiated our Founding in favor of globalist fantasies abroad and big government at home. By Vietnam, leftists had begun to blame America first for the world's problems—just as Barack Obama did for eight years as he apologized and sought to atone for America's supposed sins. Along the way, Democrats have sold out America's sovereignty and hollowed out our military to restrain American power. Even when Democrats have acted tough, it usually ends in disaster, from John Kennedy's debacle at the Bay of Pigs to Bill Clinton's fiasco in Mogadishu to Joe Biden's humiliating retreat from Afghanistan.

While offering a timely warning of the dangers ahead and new stories from Senator Cotton's service in the Senate and the Army, Only the Strong also provides a formidable and urgent roadmap to restore American strength before it's too late. Because only the strong can survive in a dangerous world and only the strong can preserve their freedom.

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    November 1, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781668618561
      • File size: 271505 KB
      • Duration: 09:25:38

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    • Kirkus

      November 1, 2022
      By-the-numbers recitation of the Arkansas senator's conservatives-good, liberals-bad reductions. Though he writes briefly about his experiences in the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, there's little specificity about what he did there. The author criticizes Joe Biden for completing a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan that completed a deal set in place by his predecessor. Naturally, there's no criticism of Trump to be found here. The man is evidently a superhero, and "the Trump administration treated our friends like friends and our foes like foes." Meanwhile, whatever liberals do is bad, dating back decades. Consider the Vietnam anti-war movement, about which Cotton blusters, "Vietnam was the perfect opportunity for the New Left to act on its hatred of America. These cowards refused to fight, of course, but they did more than that. They condemned their brave fellow Americans who would fight, sided with the enemy, and unleashed violence across our country. Many pampered radicals avoided the war by dodging the draft." That last part may be true, but so did the aforementioned Trump, to say nothing of Rush Limbaugh and (though he protests otherwise) Ted Nugent and a legion of other Cotton allies. There's not much you haven't already heard from the late Limbaugh in Cotton's pages: Liberals want to see Communist China take over the world (unless it was John Kennedy, who was happy to cave in to the Russians instead); liberals lost the otherwise winnable war in Vietnam ("Democrats sacrificed victory, satisfied with merely looking tough in the short run"); leftist radicals wanted to bomb the Capitol during Vietnam, a matter that Cotton repeats numerous times while keeping mum about the actual radical attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; liberals are smug members of the elite class (though Cotton is a graduate of Harvard Law). It's like listening to a tipsy uncle rant at the Thanksgiving table. Red meat, well past its sell-by date, for the anti-Pelosi crowd.

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