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<\/a><\/p>\nSince\u00a0I last wrote about<\/a>\u00a0the bipartisan shrieking, hysterical reaction to Trump\u2019s planned military withdrawal from Syria the other day, it hasn\u2019t gotten better, it\u2019s gotten worse. I\u2019m having a hard time even picking out individual bits of the collective freakout from the political\/media class to point at, because doing so would diminish the frenetic white noise of the paranoid, conspiratorial, fearmongering establishment reaction to the possibility of a few thousands troops being pulled back from a territory they were\u00a0illegally occupying<\/a>.<\/p>\n Endless war and military expansionism has become so normalized in establishment thought that even a slight scale-down is treated as something abnormal and shocking.<\/span>\u00a0The talking heads of the corporate state media had been almost entirely ignoring the buildup of US troops in Syria and the operations they\u2019ve been carrying out there, but as soon as the possibility of those troops leaving emerged, all the alarm bells started ringing. Endless war was considered so normal that nobody ever talked about it, then Trump tweeted he\u2019s bringing the troops home, and now every armchair liberal in America who had no idea what a Kurd was until five minutes ago is suddenly an expert on Erdo\u011fan and the YPG. Lindsey Graham, who has never met an unaccountable US military occupation he didn\u2019t like, is now suddenly cheerleading for congressional oversight: not for sending troops\u00a0into<\/em>\u00a0wars, but for pulling them\u00a0out<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cI would urge my colleagues in the Senate and the House, call people from the administration and explain this policy,\u201d Graham recently\u00a0told reporters<\/a>\u00a0on Capitol Hill. \u201cThis is the role of the Congress, to make administrations explain their policy, not in a tweet, but before Congress answering questions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is imperative Congress hold hearings on withdrawal decision in Syria\u200a\u2014\u200aand potentially Afghanistan\u200a\u2014\u200ato understand implications to our national security,\u201d Graham\u00a0tweeted today<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lindsey Graham only wants congressional oversight when it comes to decisions to pull out of wars, never to get into them. pic.twitter.com\/2JHGmdNc5G<\/a><\/p>\n — Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) December 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n