Posted on 04/11/2017 6:31:29 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
By ordering last week’s Tomahawk strike on a Syrian airbase, the president usurped Congress’s exclusive power to declare war. He shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.
Make no mistake: President Trump’s airstrikes against Syria were unconstitutional. Military action may well have been justified from a moral standpoint. The Assad regime’s war on its own people and its use of chemical weapons required a response, arguably including a retaliatory strike to deter further such attacks. Inaction, as much as action, has profound human consequences. There is a case to be made that America should have taken military action against Assad in 2013, or even as early as 2011, in order to protect innocent Syrians from their own government.
The strikes may have been justified from a strategic standpoint, too — as a means of both advancing America’s interests in the region’s security and counteracting the perception of American weakness left by President Obama’s dithering response to past Syrian chemical-weapons attacks. A feckless, feeble United States — one that retreats from declared “red lines,” abandons the region to Vladimir Putin, creates a vacuum for the rise of ISIS, and generates a massive humanitarian and refugee crisis — is good for nobody.
But from a legal standpoint, there can be no doubt that Trump’s Tomahawk strike on the Syrian regime was a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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BS
The president can do this. It was Constitutional.
Whi us this Paulsen guy?
I see the NeverTrumpers at NR are busy these days.
CC
Pure hose shite!
Really? Still feel the need to post garbage from the Never Trumpers at NR about somethimg that happened almost a week ago?
Only Congress has the power to declare war.
That’s what the Constitution says.
So every president since Roosevelt has went against the Constitution by not having Congress declare war????
Uh-huh.....
So why wasn’t it an unconstitutional act of war when Obama did this?
There’s been an outburst last few days from #NeverTrump here in FR. I saw one of their threads taken down today. I figure most of them will give themselves a vacation so they can come back & try again later when they thing they have Trump cornered on something and they will fail badly.
Again.
Still poking the owner of this site in the eye, are you?
Give your BS a rest.
Then Reagan’s strike on Libya was an un-Constitutional declaration of war.
So many idiots. So little time.
Instead of backing Trump, here we are carping just like the Soros folks, the Democrats, the MSM.
I voted for Trump. I’m just highly against this attack on Syria.
Read a number of times until it sinks in
I guess I apologize for supporting the Constitution.
Take your Trump hating garbage and shove it right up your smelly Obama hole Loser. I am so sick of a-holes such as you. Drop dead and go to hell.
I’m an “a-hole” for supporting the Constitution.
Okay. Cool.
Please point out the Article and Section where the President of the United States is required to telegraph a military action, before it is conducted?
Thanks in advance.
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