Talk about a 'forever war'!

When Tulsi Garbard campagined for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, she promised to end what she called our "forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Full disclosure: I voted for Tulsi in the New Hampshire primary, and I left her bumper sticker on the Subaru until last year, when I replaced it with Nikki Haley's.)

Now Ms Gabbard is Donald Trump's pick to become Director of National Intelligence. Meanwhile the president wants to take charge of Gaza, the unhappy enclave housing two million Palestinians claiming to be refugees from 1948, when the British-officered Arab Legion and detachments from seven Arab armies tried to destroy the fledgling state of Israel. How does Ms Gabbard feel about that 77-year-old conflict, I wonder?