Op-Ed: Three days after 9/11, I was the lone vote in Congress against war (via latimesopinion)
On Sept. 14, 2001, Congress took up a short bill, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, which in 60 words gave the president the power to use all “necessary and appropriate force” against virtually anyone, anywhere, at any time.
A recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that, despite 20 years of engagement, U.S. officials were never able to effectively relate to or engage with Afghanistan’s social, cultural and political context, and our ignorance often stemmed from a “willful disregard for information that may have been available.
For decades, the United States has been obsessed with the guns of war. America’s militaristic approach to our foreign policy has not made our country any safer. It certainly has not made the countries we bomb safer. As chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, I oversee the budget that funds America’s diplomatic, humanitarian and developmental priorities. That budget of $62 billion is a fraction of the $750-billion budget for the Pentagon.
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