“The biggest supporters of endless Middle East war are “conservative” Republicans who claim to be for small government. Go figure”
You might want to check those numbers/observations. In the latest bill put out by Congress,The Crow/Cheney amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed by a vote of 45-11. Crow, the co-author of the bill is democrat. And to my knowledge of what I can find, all 11 were republican.
The NDAA committee is made up for 31 democrats, 20 new ones from Pelosi, and assorted others. The majority number of the committee just happens to be 31.
There are too many in the committee that are republican that are failing in this effort. But as the majority belongs to the liberals, the bill will pass and Trump will have to either veto it or sign with consolations in trade. At the moment, we talking about the safety of over 8000 troops.
Pelosi’s reasoning for keeping us there is to keep Russia in check. I fail to see the reasoning as Russia is already there and doing what they want and have been since late 1979. What’s to be gained? It’s obvious we are not going to over run the terrorists there as no one has been able to do it in history, so win what you can, go elsewhere. Thus this falls under throwing bad money to already bad money.
rwood
The amendment was written by Liz Cheney, the no 3 Republican in the House. She got Crow, a Dem, to cosponsor.
It’s similar to the resolution that Mitch McConnell pushed through the Senate, condemning Trumps attemp to get us out of Syria.