Oh I’m certainly not suggesting any modern (or… perhaps simply any at all) U.S. President has been a dove in any sense of the word. I have no illusions about that. I also don’t believe my article’s argument at all hinges upon any sort of notion of a past U.S. leader, or administration in general, being a dove.

My critique of U.S. foreign policy as it pertains to war is more that post-World War II, the choice between Democrat and Republican has never yielded a choice between supporting military hegemony or rejecting it. Some politicians along the way have been admirably anti-war, but no singular, modern U.S. political party has fully been anti-war. We’ve been left disenfranchised as it pertains to any voting towards an anti-interventionist foreign policy. The moral dilemma I was referring to earlier will likely never be reconciled as long as both parties uniformly stand for military intervention in order to maintain global hegemony.