It’s good to see that Gallagher comes down on the right side of the foreign war issue here. But you know, this is why one votes against such people in elections. Pelosi represents a (probably loose and even mutually conflicted) cabal of financiers, petroleros, and MIC ghouls–neither Congress nor San Francisco, surely–though I would be interested to know more about how she gets elected, should any of you happen to know the insides of Bay area politics.
Politicians and populations can be reactionary in some ways and not others.
I find Ocasio-Cortez’ assent suspicious at the very least, though again a judgment would require me to know more about the context than I do. She has also joined protest against Ms. Pelosi, and this could involve more than a quiet note of despair.
Lobbyists propose and seal deals with politicians, come back and check to see that their will gets done, and assure repercussions when it does not. Populations tend to be ill-organized to do this, so we do so only en extremis.
It seems that any non-warlike or not directly abusive act on the part of Donald Trump puts the conservative wing of the Democrats in a dither. Pelosi has already contracted to someone to keep the Syrian War going, and here she finds her all-but-cartoon-White-male president governs to her left. He tries to negotiate terms of accord with Korea and with Russia, albeit apparently erratically, and now repeatedly tries to remove troops from Syria, though in practice the troops appear to have become stuck.
Maybe it’s all just hooey, and he has no intention of removing troops anyway. Maybe there is no matter of his generals refusing or de-fusing an order. It’s easy enough to tweet that troops are to move. But here we have Pelosi outfibbing herself for war either way.
Que se vayan todos.
Would there were a more up-to-date slogan in English. “Throw the bums out,” my grandfather used to say. He’d stand with his 7th-grade education and a can of beer swearing at the TV. “Don’t give them a nickel that they don’t take, and don’t ever, ever sign up to fight for them. Don’t turn your back–couple years now, they’ll come for you.”
I used to think he was nuts.
