Revolting elites. (Comment).(US foreign policy)

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, WE ARE entering a month of great national deliberation. In the main arena, the most serious foreign-policy debate since Vietnam is unfolding, with senior members of the president's own party among those articulating the most serious qualms. It's almost what the Constitution's framers had in mind: a great debate, conducted through congressional hearings, before America goes to war--and in this case a debate seemingly forced upon the president by public opinion.

This is all but unprecedented. Prior to World War II, there was an agonizing debate over whether to ...

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