What Iran and China stand to gain from an Iraq AUMF repeal
On Thursday, the Senate began to re-evaluate one of the most controversial episodes in American history: the Iraq war.\xa0\nAfter a generation of use and abuse, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling a vote to repeal the Iraq AUMF, or authorization for the use of military force, which has been a key underpinning for America\u2019s so-called \u201cforever wars\u201d in the Middle East.\nBut Stephen Hadley, the man who was the architect of many of the national security policies that the Iraq AUMF enabled, has something to say before Congress votes. Hadley was President George W. Bush\u2019s national security advisor from 2005 to 2009 and was Dick Cheney\u2019s guy at the negotiating table with Russia during the George H.W. Bush administration. Now, he has just published a book called Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama that chronicles 20 years of war and politics in America.\xa0\nOn this week\u2019s episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza speaks with the former Bush adviser about what we stand to lose if Congress is sloppy about repealing the Iraq war AUMF, what Bush got right and wrong on China, how Joe Biden\u2019s foreign policy echoes Bush\u2019s Freedom Agenda, and how President Biden can learn from Bush\u2019s successes and failures dealing with Vladimir Putin.\nRyan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO.Stephen Hadley is the former National Security Advisor for President George W. Bush.Afra Abdullah is an associate producer for POLITICO audio.Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio.Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is the executive producer for POLITICO audio.\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices