I’m playing a bit of devil’s advocate here so work with me. Yes, there were US citizens, medical students, in danger in Grenada. But does the President of the United States have the power to invade a country and overthrow its government every time some Americans put themselves in a dangerous situation? Should we have invaded Iran when those hikers got themselves captured? The military went in and pulled our citizens out of Albania a few years back. Would we have been right to overthrow their government instead? Or does it only work in places like Grenanda that have no chance of putting up a fight? Do the rules that govern a President’s actions change depending on the size of the nation we’re mad at?
Who would suspect there might be a great number of incidental details in international situations, such as Grenada, that are not public knowledge?
I want a POTUS to have some limited authority to prevent or rescue, regardless of where it is. The now fact that we have an idiot at the switch should not hamstring the future. Having an idiot POTUS should incite us to work harder to prevent similar idiots from power in the future.
There’s a lot more to the 1980’s and 1990’s than is widely known.
Invasions, revolutions, etc., do not happen because of the reasons cited in the press.
Note how the dedicated new world order GHW Bush was installed as the VP for Reagan.