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Monday, January 05, 2015
Why Bob Corker is the senator to watch in 2015
By George Will, for The Washington Post - Standing at the intersection of three foreign policy crises and a
perennial constitutional tension, Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), incoming
chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, may be the senator who
matters most in 2015. Without an authorization for the use of military
force (AUMF) tailored to novel circumstances, the United States is
waging war against an entity without precedent (the Islamic State). Iran
is pursuing nuclear weapons during negotiations that should involve
congressional duties. And Russia is revising European borders by force
and, like Iran, is the object of a U.S. experiment testing the power of
economic sanctions to modify a dictator’s behavior. As Congress weighs
its foreign policy role regarding these three matters, Corker treads the
contested terrain between deference to presidential primacy in foreign
policy and the need for collective wisdom and shared responsibility. (link)
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