{"id":44195,"date":"2019-03-05T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44195"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:14:17","slug":"the-american-people-do-not-want-endless-war-sanders-warren-and-ocasio-cortez-back-pledge-to-bring-post-9-11-conflicts-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44195","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The American People Do Not Want Endless War&#8217;: Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez Back Pledge to Bring Post-9\/11 Conflicts to a Close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/03\/04\/american-people-do-not-want-endless-war-sanders-warren-and-ocasio-cortez-back-pledge\">&#8216;The American People Do Not Want Endless War&#8217;: Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez Back Pledge to Bring Post-9\/11 Conflicts to a Close<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Congress must reassert its constitutional authority over the use of force and responsibly end these interventions,&#8221; said the Vermont senator.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/forever_war.jpg?itok=iHxGXxnU\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The United States has been in a state of continuous, global, open-ended military conflict since 2001,&#8221; the new pledge reads. (Image: Common Defense)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were among the first members of Congress to sign a new pledge vowing to end America&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/03\/04\/common-defense-congress-forever-wars-pledge\/\">forever wars<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re watching our friends who we served with now on their eighth and ninth deployments. We&#8217;re seeing our kids now will be old enough to enlist and having to have hard conversations about that.&#8221;&nbsp;<br>\u2014Alexander McCoy, Common Defense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The United States has been in a state of continuous, global, open-ended military conflict since 2001,&#8221; reads the pledge, which the veterans group Common Defense&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commondefense.us\/end-the-forever-war\/\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday. &#8220;Over 2.5 million troops have fought in this &#8216;Forever War&#8217; in over a dozen countries\u2014including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Niger, Somalia, and Thailand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five other lawmakers who joined Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren as the first supporters of the &#8220;End the Forever War&#8221; pledge were: Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I pledge to the people of the United States of America, and to our military community in particular, that I will (1) fight to reclaim Congress&#8217;s constitutional authority to conduct oversight of U.S. foreign policy and independently debate whether to authorize each new use of military force, and (2) act to bring the Forever War to a responsible and expedient conclusion,&#8221; the document states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/users\/user20544\/screen_shot_2019-03-04_at_2.58.02_pm.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The American People Do Not Want Endless War&#8217;: Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez Back Pledge to Bring Post-9\/11 Conflicts to a Close &#8220;Congress must reassert its constitutional authority over the use of force and responsibly end these interventions,&#8221; said the Vermont senator. &#8220;The United States has been in a state of continuous, global, open-ended military conflict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,7669,21226,827],"class_list":["post-44195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-10","tag-common-dreams","tag-jake-johnson","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44196,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44195\/revisions\/44196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}