Posted on 01/18/2015 11:49:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
The German parliament’s scientific research service says the government’s legal argument to justify a training mission for Kurds in Iraq has “no constitutional basis,” according to a survey seen by both the news agency DPA and Der Spiegel magazine.
Berlin is planning to send up to 100 soldiers to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil to help train Kurdish Peshmerga forces fighting “Islamic State” (IS) terrorists. The cabinet approved the plans last December.
As the mission is not part of a formal NATO or United Nations operation, it is not clear whether it is legal. The parliamentary survey says the legal grounds for the operation may be unconstitutional as missions abroad are only allowed if they are conducted as part of a “system of collective security” according to article 24 of Germany’s Basic Law. …
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I see the US drifting farther from its so-called EU “allies.”
I think its time to pull the plug on NATO. Forcing the EU to consider its own security needs, for real, may also shock them from their self-imposed path of decline.
They’ve been considering their own security needs for quite a while. They are even more adept than Obama at “governing by crisis”.
And if they start acting independently, they will become an instant enemy of the USA, especially since the EU came to be originally to oppose “Anglo-Saxon” dominance.
it proves my point then, doesn't it?
Didn’t WE write their Constitution after WWII?
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