article_snippet: But for all the heat generated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress and an ill-conceived, panicky letter to Iran's leadership organized by Sen.
article_snippet: Tom Cotton -- the latest debate is creating little light.
article_snippet: Unfortunately, few in Congress have taken the time to consider the matter in a thoughtful, coherent manner.
article_snippet: (Although Sen. Marco Rubio appears to be confused, insisting at a March 11 hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iran must be unhappy with U.S. airstrikes against ISIS).
article_snippet: Yet the question that Netanyahu did not answer, and which Sen. Cotton and Netanyahu 46 colleagues have not even asked, is what exactly should be done about Iran's activities abroad?
article_snippet: Many in Congress fail to grasp that Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and Netanyahu colleagues in Iran's Cabinet, with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and his colleagues in Iran's Cabinet U.S.-PhDs and understanding of plural democracies, are not cut from the same cloth as the hardliners in charge of Iran's Quds force (Iran commander, Qasem Suleimani turns up in Lebanon and Iraq despite a travel and asset ban).  