Red State Gets It Right

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are wringing their hand over the direction the Tea Party has moved the Republican party on foreign policy. Red State has a great post on this. The two Senators have discovered an isolationist sentiment in the field of presidential candidates, something of a feckless unwillingness to face up to international responsibilities. This sentiment, I would argue, is not one of isolationism but rather constitutional-ism. We should have the debate before going to war. Congress and only Congress has the power to declare war. Those are the only logical positions one can take away from last week's debate and they square with the constitution if not conventional Beltway thinking.