Mr. President, We Need to Talk. Now.

Americans Urgently Await Congressional Debate and Oversight of War Aims.

The horseman serves the horse,

The neat-herd serves the neat,

The merchant serves the purse,

The eater serves his meat;

'T is the day of the chattel

Web to weave, and corn to grind;

Things are in the saddle,

And ride mankind.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing

The Russia-Ukraine War appears to be entering a decisive—and potentially dange…