Ever since Republican Liz Cheney won a seat in the House of Representatives, many Americans have viewed her with suspicion, based on the simple fact that she is the daughter of neoconservative former Vice President and Iraq War architect Dick Cheney. It appears that the fears of America First citizens were not unwarranted. Liz Cheney is now reportedly working with House Democrats to attempt to extend and prolong the War in Afghanistan, which is now the longest war in our nation’s history.

The U.S. military has been fighting in Afghanistan for almost nineteen years. House Democrats, working in tandem with key pro-war GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Liz Cheney, are ensuring that continues.

Last night, the House Armed Services Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of an amendment — jointly sponsored by Democratic Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado and Congresswoman Cheney of Wyoming — prohibiting the expenditure of monies to reduce the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan below 8,000 without a series of conditions first being met.

The imposed conditions are by no means trivial: for these troop reductions from Afghanistan to be allowed, the Defense Department must be able to certify, among other things, that leaving Afghanistan “will not increase the risk for the expansion of existing or formation of new terrorist safe havens inside Afghanistan” and “will not compromise or otherwise negatively affect the ongoing United States counter terrorism mission against the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and associated forces.” [The Intercept]

Liz Cheney has never been a stalwart supporter of President Trump. Her gimmick is to pretend to stand with Trump on trade and immigration, while undermining him every step of the way on foreign policy.

Just who is Liz Cheney? The fierce defender of her dad and former State Department aide in George W. Bush’s administration moved home to Wyoming to run for office but abruptly dropped out of a 2014 Senate bid to unseat Mike Enzi (R). Now that she’s running for the House, will she fight for Trump’s “America First” economic theories or champion the more traditional Republican foreign policy espoused by her father as Bush’s controversial vice president?

The answer remains to be seen. For now she’s trying to fuse parts of her father’s national security mantle with some of Trump’s economic views on trade and immigration, possibly creating a “Liz Cheney Republican” brand. [Washington Post]

She may be serious about her stance on trade and immigration, or she may be using them as a ploy to maintain popularity with her pro-Trump constituents while she works every step of the way to promote a globalist foreign policy. Either way, she is not representing the good people of Wyoming, or the good and decent veterans of America, who are thoroughly exhausted with the War in Afghanistan.

Nearly 18 years since the start of the war in Afghanistan and 16 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, majorities of U.S. military veterans say those wars were not worth fighting, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of veterans. A parallel survey of American adults finds that the public shares those sentiments.

About two-thirds of veterans say the way in Iraq was not worth fighting

Among veterans, 64% say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting considering the costs versus the benefits to the United States, while 33% say it was. The general public’s views are nearly identical: 62% of Americans overall say the Iraq War wasn’t worth it and 32% say it was. Similarly, majorities of both veterans (58%) and the public (59%) say the war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. About four-in-ten or fewer say it was worth fighting.

Veterans who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan are no more supportive of those engagements than those who did not serve in these wars. And views do not differ based on rank or combat experience. [Pew Research]

What is the point of electing Republicans to power if they seek to undermine America and our America First president at every opportunity? Many Republicans, like Senator Braun, seem to be feckless in their rush to bow before the mob’s globalist ideology of cancel culture. Cheney, however, appears to be extremely ideological and deliberate in her attempt to prop up an extremely unpopular globalist foreign policy favored by deep state insiders and neoconservatives. In very short time, Liz Cheney has become the darling of the globalist mainstream media, despite the fact that many liberal journalists purportedly have a strong dislike for her father, Dick Cheney.

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PBS: GOP Rep. Liz Cheney criticizes Trump for tweet on Yovanovitch

Newsweek: Top Republican Liz Cheney Tells Trump to ‘Stop Tweeting’ Murder Conspiracy About MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough

Washington Post Opinion: This is Liz Cheney’s chance to be her party’s savior

Also, check out this interesting headline from 2015.

ABC News: Dick and Liz Cheney Slam Hillary Clinton, Encourage Joe Biden to Run

Many Democrats are now reflexively anti-Trump on every single issue, even though many used to claim to be progressive Democrats opposed to endless wars. Many have dropped the anti-war mask to reveal themselves as bloodthirsty globalists eager to support and extend Quixotic imperial crusades.

Combined with the fact that Democrats are increasingly merging with and being led by the Bush-era neocons and other Bush/Cheney operatives in creating such jingoistic and militaristic messaging campaigns as the beloved-by-liberals Lincoln Project, and that Biden is clearly trying to run to Trump’s right on foreign policy with ads accusing him of being too soft on China and linking him to Castro and Chavez, the picture is clear. It should come as absolutely no surprise that House Democrats are finding common cause with Liz Cheney and other GOP warmongers to block any efforts to reduce even moderately the footprint of the U.S. military in the world or its decades-long posture of endless war. [The Intercept]

Thankfully, some Republicans and Democrats are banding together to oppose this neocon buffoonery.

Opposition to troop withdrawal in both Afghanistan and Germany was not unanimous. There were elements of the progressive left and the pro-Trump right who supported these withdrawals. [The Intercept]

Republican officeholders will continue to do whatever they please unless the America First public decide to hold their feet to the fire.