President Barack Obama, who has acted unilaterally on everything from making war in Libya to granting work permits to illegal aliens in the United States, now wants a war authorization from Congress.

What Congress should make him do first — but probably will not — is embrace a realistic foreign policy that makes sense because it makes Americans safer.

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