Well I don’t usually do this, but I feel compelled to respond to this post in particular. Bernie Sanders voted to go to war with Afghanistan in 2001. To be more specific it was an Authorization for Use of Military Force Against “terrorists responsible for 9/11.” Which at the time was Osama Bin Laden who was being harbored by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The first AUMF to go to Afghanistan was voted for on September 18th 2001. Literally a week after 9/11. Not only had our nation just suffered from a devastating terrorist attack, the most devastating attack from a foreign threat in the history of the nation. On top of that the nation was in a state of patriotic fervor and public opinion was basically unanimously in support of military action against Afghanistan. Granted time and time again no power has been able to effectively subjugate Afghanistan, but a week after 9/11 a vote to go to war with Afghanistan was completely justified. Definitely a short sighted decision, but one that anyone operating as a politician at the time would have been hard pressed to turn against. Which is why it should come as no surprise that only one congressperson voted no. Ten representatives and two senators abstained from voting, mostly because there was an attack and a military response seemed necessary at the time.