Robert C. Koehler: Transcending war: Everyone wins
When will we as a nation admit it? Barbara Lee was right.
She was the only member of Congress to vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force back in 2001, following the 9/11 disaster, which allowed George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan. A year later she voted against a second AUMF that launched the invasion of Iraq and Bush’s alleged Global War on Terror, a.k.a., our endless war to pummel evil into dust and sweep it out of the universe.
Ever since then, American presidents have been empowered to play war anywhere in the world, without congressional approval.
