Remember that big disastrous US war in the Middle East and how officials at the time were assuring us it'd only take a few days? Sen. Tom Cotton (R – AR) remembers how popular those quick easy wars were in theory, and is pushing for one again.

The target is obvious for those following Sen. Cotton's career, he wants the US to "pursue military strikes" against Iran, a war he believes would only take a few days to win outright.

Sen. Cotton is citing the mostly forgotten December 1998 US war on Iraq as the model, saying the US won after several days of attacking Iraq for "disobeying Security Council resolutions."

The reason the war is mostly forgotten is because it killed a couple thousand people, didn't resolve anything, and was just a brief escalation amid sanctions that killed far, far more.