Strange ...?

"Beware of the military-industrial complex." -- President Eisenhower

Trump is pulling a token number of US troops out of Syria ... to the hair-on-fire, spittle-flecked chagrin of the drive-by media and the Democrats.

Was there anything like an equivalent reaction when Obama pulled a major deployment of troops out of Iraq ... with the consequences of the rise of ISIS and Iran's hegemonic influence in the region?

No? I wonder why?

We are living in strange and irrational times.

Strange

What a cool and strangely impersonal way to tell the American people that you are running for president ... with an adviser's e-mail and a 2-minute video released on social media ... see: New York Times Story. Perhaps Hillary Clinton is trying to tell the younger voters that she is still hip ... but, at the same time, using electronics to keep her distance from any embarrassing questions ... even from her adoring media.

The only analogy that I can come up with is to compare this Clinton announcement with a couple exchanging their wedding vows using Skype. Am I the only one finding this venue strangely detached and hinting of hubris?