Posted on 06/01/2014 6:50:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Re the Carter, Powell, Wolfowitz, etc “doctrines,” each details the use of military power in an act of war. Declarations of war are to originate in the Congress. There is no such thing as an “intervention” in Constitutional law.
If Congress funds it, they approve it.
MacArthur also told Kennedy, don’t fight a land war in Asia. Wish George W Bush had listened before deciding to invade Iraq
Does anybody know why Chapman is appearing in Townhall? I thought the site was, ostensibly, a conservative one. Chapman is no conservative. Here is a bit from a piece by Colin Flaherty, concerning urban black youth violence, that appeared in American Thinker:
Steve Chapman is an editor at the Chicago Tribune who does not like it when people like Second City Cop complain his paper “embargoes” news about about racial violence. “Why do you care so much about the attackers’ race?” he wrote. “If you fear or dislike blacks, I suppose it would confirm your prejudice. But otherwise, it tells you nothing useful.”
A conservative does not turn a blind eye to facts, regardless of how unpleasant they may be.
That is an illegal definition of a declaration of war; it is government by hand-wave.
Because they don't want get caught up in the fingerpointing if something goes wrong. Its better to blame the prez.
Last year after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to arm the Syrian Rebels, Obama worked up a plan and sent to the Intelligence committees in the House and Senate. Both committees classified their vote so nobody knows who voted for it.
BTW, PBS Frontline did a 20 minute segment last Tues night than can be found now at their website that covers the process by which the Syrian rebel groups are vetted and trained to receive the arms.
The reporter asked the rebel about the weapons and he said they were good weapons but they were anti tank weapons and they really needed anti aircraft weapons.
The reporter then asked the rebel about the training and he said it was good training but at the rate it was being done, it would take 20 years
The rebel then said that America doesn't like Assad, but they don't like us either.
Which effectively makes the prez unaccountable. He already has a military budget he can bend to his will.
As to Syria, I think it's obvious that this is a "let them kill each other" war. Once the Iranians upgrade their weapons, blowback will be a bitch.
This is what is good about Congressionally declared war: the objectives are decided in advance, and if it was taking out the entire "axis of evil" so be it. Bush could then have gone on to Tehran after Baghdad and things would have been different. But noooo, he had to go to the UN to justify this family vendetta. It was idiotic. If it was "no nation building," then so be it. Etc. Things like that get settled in debate, but not in the heat of the pen and a telephone.
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