On this day in 2001, just three days after the tragedy of 9/11, Congress voted on whether to give the president broad and unchecked authority to use military force. I was the lone vote against it. It was not an easy decision. Our nation was grieving. People wanted security and justice. But I feared that an open-ended authorization would lead us into decades of war without clear limits or accountability. Sadly, those fears proved true. That vote became the foundation for U.S. wars that spanned ge