Your examples of Adama and Jefferson are extremely disengenous. In both examples, Congress passed a series of laws/funding mechanism that directed the Presidents on how to act. In fact Jefferson waited for instructions from Congress. The reason there were not DOWs was purely diplomatic. Other than that, Congress called the shots.
“Your examples of Adama and Jefferson are extremely disengenous.”
Another difference is that Jefferson was acting to protect Americans (and other) from being robbed and enslaved by the Barbarians. There is no such analogy in Syria.
Some here are starting to sound like modern wussy college kids - triggered by a NR article or writer. It’s true, the NR hosts some never-Trumpers but they are not all that way. Besides when did it become a crime to debate these things as opposed to falling in line?
Personally, I’m not afraid to have America kill people and break things. But let’s be honest about it.
For better or worse, it’s clearly an Olympian flip-flop by the Don - I give him a 10 for the splash at least. And what he did IS, absolutely, an act of war regardless what anyone feels about the prez’s ability to do it with/without Congress’s prior authorization.
There is not one person here who would NOT call it an act of war if Syria pulled up a couple ships next to America and sent thousands of pounds of explosives flying into our heartland.
Based on the logic of some here, I assume 9/11 was not an act of war either.
Again, I shed no tears for anyone except the Christians in Syria. But let’s not degenerate into a lock-step / no-debate mode here.