In 2001, the one dissenter to a declaration of war was a Democrat. The dissenters this...
Rep. Thomas Massie listens at a press conference, alongside members of the Second Amendment Caucus, outside the U.S. Capitol Building on March 08, 2022 in Washington, DC.On Sept. 14, 2001, the House of Representatives passed what was understood to be a declaration of war against the perpetrators of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, by a vote of 420-1. The one dissenter was Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
The shared populist assumption — on the anti-establishment right, the heterodox left and the new spaces where they intersect — seems to be that the Biden administration is destined to repeat the Bush administration’s War on Terror and Iraq-era mistakes. But so far, this White House has taken a more cautious and controlled approach.
At the very least, it should be possible to disagree with the dissenters provisionally and to reject the kind of anti-anti-Putinism to which they’re often tempted, without pretending that all the reasons to doubt the wisdom of our foreign policy establishment have suddenly evaporated.Three connected realities, in particular, should guarantee the dissenters a place in the discussion. The first is simply the recent track record of U.S. involvement in military struggles overseas.
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