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"...Congress should think long and hard before denying Obama the authority he seeks. This would be true even if Republicans occupied the moral high ground with respect to political polarization — which they do not. It would be true even if Americans were not justifiably war-weary — which they are. And it would be true even if Obama were not sounding such an uncertain trumpet.

Those Republicans, and Democrats, tempted to vote no need to consider the precedent they may be setting and the signal they would send not only to Syria, or Iran, or North Korea — but also to allies from Jordan to Japan.

They should acknowledge the same fact that Obama has at times seemed to deny but that his reluctant call for action in Syria tacitly concedes: The fantasy of a United States “disengaged” from the Middle East, much less from our wider role as guarantor of minimal international order, is just that — a fantasy.

Costly as it is for us to assume global responsibilities, it would be even costlier, in the long run, to abdicate them amid internal political discord..."

THE WASHINGTON POST: Syria, a cause for bipartisanship

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THE WASHINGTON POST: A vote of no confidence is in order

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