Senator Ruben Gallego

Well, until I find a real justifiable reason for them to essentially go to war, and they actually haven't identified that, yes, because what happens, there's a very few exceptions of why you can essentially use our men and women to kill people, basically, go to war.

And all of their justifications so far have not met that.

I start from the from the another perspective, just more because I come from a military man.

Right.

Is this in our national interest?

Number one.

Right.

If and if you have to do war making, like, is this the only way to actually effectively, you know, secure our national interests?

Right.

So that that's the first thing that I always approach when it comes to to this.

Right.

Before you start getting into bad guy, you know, bad guy, worst guy, worst guy, worst guy.

Right.

Because like we make decisions all the time to negotiate with, you know, bad guys.

For example, you know, the leader of China, horrible guy.

They have concentration camps of Muslims in Western China, but we decide to still engage in trade with them.

Is there a national interest to do something about that?

It's in our moral interest, but are we going to go to war for China against that?

No, right?

Because it just doesn't, that's not directly into our national interest and we're willing to actually sacrifice our men and women, right?