As much as Ukraine is morally in the right, the U.S. should be cautious about committing...
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, as she arrives with a congressional delegation at the Mariyinsky palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 1, less than three weeks before Congress approved a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine.It didn’t take long after ending our involvement in one forever war for us to take up what will likely be the next. We had little time to enjoy a “peace dividend.
In the beginning, in the middle and even toward the end, we seemed to have bipartisan support for this forever war in Afghanistan, our nation’s longest. Somehow, through three presidents and many changes of leadership in Congress, we couldn’t leave. I can only conclude that there is strong bipartisan support for forever wars.
And on May 21, Biden signed a congressionally approved $40 billion in aid to Ukraine. Only 57 House Republicans and 11 Senate Republicans opposed the bill.Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tried unsuccessfully to delay the $40 billion Ukraine bill. He sought to link spending on this new war to oversight of the last extended war. He proposed inserting language into the bill that would expand the role of Afghanistan’s SIGAR to oversee new spending in Ukraine.
To be clear, I am glad the U.S. and NATO allies support defending Ukrainian against a clear Russian aggressor. I am also glad the U.S. is spending treasure and material, but not blood, in Ukraine. Finally, I am glad that European allies also have committed treasure and material to Ukraine, rather than leaving the U.S. to underwrite the entire defense. The Ukrainians have shown remarkable bravery and success, and they have the moral high ground in this conflict.
I hope that the Russian invasion ceases soon, limiting the horror, death and destruction to what Ukraine has already endured. But historically, Russia’s wars grind on for years: Grozny, Syria, Afghanistan and The Great Patriotic War 1939-1945. Initial Russian incompetence and heavy losses are not followed by Russian capitulation. Rather, Russia tends to double down and ramp up its destructive capacity, with a disregard for its own young men and its enemy’s people.
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