Interventionists are overdue for some self-reflection
by Matt Welch, Los Angeles Times
Oct 16, 2017
3 minutes
When Sen. Bob Corker first proposed sending lethal U.S. weaponry to Kiev so that Ukrainians could fight off their nuclear-armed Russian neighbors, no one then warned that the Tennessee Republican's ideas could hurtle us "toward World War III."
When Corker came within an eyelash of persuading then-President Barack Obama in August 2013 to bomb Syria, "get Assad" and provide aid to "the moderate, vetted opposition," nobody said that the future Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair should "concern anyone who cares about our
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