OPINION: Mayor Pete’s Foreign Policy: One Good Idea and Lots of Bad Ones

He points out Congress’s bipartisan cowardice in dodging responsibility for wars.

It is now a commonplace of American politics that successful presidential candidates run as doves, then find a hawkish side in office. Ike ran as a peace candidate, then increased involvement in Korea. Nixon promised an end to the war, and expanded the one he inherited into Cambodia. George W. Bush promised a humble foreign policy in his first campaign, and then in his second inaugural preached liberating warfare and setting “a fire in the minds of men.” Obama...