The Senate's most prized prerogative is going by default.
The Constitution gives to the President and the Senate sole treaty-making powers for the nation. For 154 years the Senate has guarded this prerogative with fierce jealousy. But during World War II the Senate has been the scene of no really great debate over foreign policy. Even as Smolensk fell, and as U.S. citizens debated the postwar world with ever-increasing intensity, the Senate wriggled and stalled.
Last week that fact was dramatically plain. By a thumping nonpartisan majority, (360-to-29) the House had passed the Fulbright Resolution, pledging the U.S. to carry its...
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