Jim Webb, a possible pick for defense secretary, is right about this

In 2013, retiring senator Jim Webb had a message for Congress on foreign policy. Now that he is reportedly under consideration by President Trump to take Jim Mattis’s former job as defense secretary, his advice is well worth revisiting.

Writing the cover story for National Interest, Webb outlined how Congress had abdicated its powers to the executive branch. Webb is right, and the 116th Congress would do well to pay attention — especially those on the Left and the Right deeply critical of Trump, and now possibly Webb’s, foreign policy inclinations.