City leaders voting on foreign policy resolutions should be embarrassed

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How do city leaders not feel embarrassed spending their time issuing resolutions on foreign policy decisions over which they have no control?

Some Democratic city leaders took their complaints about their activist colleagues to Politico. Seattle City Councilwoman Sara Nelson said, “Foreign policy is not my job and I’m not going to tell members of our congressional delegation how to do their jobs.” San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Joel Engardio introduced a bill that would limit future foreign policy resolutions.

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