Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 11, 2010

On March 10, Congress had an opportunity to extricate the U.S. from the war in Afghanistan. The resolution was defeated by a margin of 356-65, with more negative votes cast by Democrats than Republicans.

This critically important debate ? essentially the first time Congress has ever carefully examined the merits of a war that has now lasted nearly a decade -- received little media attention.

Tennessee Rep. John Duncan, one of five Republican representatives who supported the call to end the war, declared that ?there is nothing conservative about the war in Afghanistan? and pointed out that ?Fiscal conservatives should be the most horrified at the hundreds of billions that have been spent over there,? much of which has been wasted propping up the corrupt, inept government of Iranian ally Hamid Karzai.

If Congress had carried out its constitutional duty in 2001, rather than surrendering its authority to then-President Bush, Americans may not be trapped in an Afghan war that may prove as endless as it is pointless.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.