---
title: "I disagree with Barbara Lee on many topics, but on the Afghanistan…"
date: 2021-08-16
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
---

# I disagree with Barbara Lee on many topics, but on the Afghanistan…

*August 16, 2021 · Facebook*

::::: {}
::: {}
[https://www.mic.com/p/lets-revisit-barbara-lees-lonely-vote-against-the-afghanistan-invasion-82846509](https://www.mic.com/p/lets-revisit-barbara-lees-lonely-vote-against-the-afghanistan-invasion-82846509){target="_blank"}
:::

::: {}
I disagree with Barbara Lee on many topics, but on the Afghanistan invasion, she was the only Congressperson to get it right.\
\
\"Sept. 11 changed the world. Our deepest fears now haunt us. Yet I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. This is a very complex and complicated matter. Now, this resolution will pass, although we all know that the president can wage a war even without it. However difficult this vote may be, some of us must urge the use of restraint.\
\
Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, let's step back for a moment. Let's just pause, just for a minute, and think through the implications of our actions today, so that this does not spiral out of control. Now, I have agonized over this vote. But I came to grips with it today, and I came to grips with opposing this resolution during the very painful, yet very beautiful, memorial service. As a member of the clergy so eloquently said, as we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.\"\
\
[https://www.mic.com/p/lets-revisit-barbara-lees-lonely-vote-against-the-afghanistan-invasion-82846509](https://www.mic.com/p/lets-revisit-barbara-lees-lonely-vote-against-the-afghanistan-invasion-82846509){target="_blank"}
:::
:::::