Don't have stupid foreign policy

For an alarming moment reading the Friday editorial in Havre Daily News on Montana politicians bashing the president during the Ukraine crisis, I imagined the United States already at war with Russia. It is true that in times of war American politicians are expected to follow the leader, whether in the case of WWII (with rare exceptions like Montana’s Jeanette Rankin), or our more recent crusade to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Once we are in the fight, a political leader who makes pronouncements along the lines of, Ukraine is a “core interest of Russia,” but not of the...