On North Korea, 'We’re Fools If We Don’t Start Taking the President at His Word'
Senator Chris Murphy explains why he’s introducing a bill to restrict the president’s war-making powers.
On Friday, Donald Trump’s defense secretary traveled to the tensest point of the world’s tensest conflict to deliver a message. “Our goal is not war,” James Mattis at the the border between South Korea and North Korea, but rather to persuade Kim Jong Un to give up his rapidly expanding nuclear-weapons arsenal through hard-nosed diplomacy. Back in Washington, D.C., however, a counter-message : The president’s repeated of war with North Korea, and his advisers’ increasingly urgent that the administration could be forced to take military action
