Future armed interventions

Ivo Dalder and Robert Hagan argue in a piece today that a future president needs to take into account the views of other democracies when considering whether to intervene in a future conflict. They seem to think Bush erred in not doing this before the invasion of Iraq. But Bush had Congressional approval as well as approval by the U.N. Security Council. And a majority of the world's democracies joined Bush's coalition. The only democracies in opposition were France and Germany.