Posted on 10/08/2019 5:07:05 AM PDT by gattaca
Congress is there to enrich itself. They have no interest in governance.
Is congress going to declare war on Syria? Or on our NATO “ally”, Turkey? Can’t wait to see that debate.
Turkey has given the US a gateway to invade Iraq twice in the past 30 years. Our 150-1000 US troops in Syria are no longer a deterrent to Turkey , which has taken in millions of refugees, from cleaning out its border
I’m not interested in Congress having control or power over anything.
If these two bit intellectuals like Romney, Graham, Cruz and McConnell et al, are soooooooo upset with Trump for pulling a hand full of remaining US Troops from harms way, then SUBMIT SOMJE LEGISLATION FOR A VOTE TO SEND THE TROOPS BACK IN THERE.
I heard that the neocons have done all this whining over 1,000 troops!
Sadly. That’s all the Republicans in Congress do anymore is talk.
The other angle to this is that U.S. military campaigns have nothing to do with our national interests. The campaigns are waged simply to benefit foreign interests that lobby bribe U.S. politicians.
That is a perfectly balanced, and Constitutionally correct, way to go to war.
Congress DIRECTS the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy raised BY Congress to go to war, and Congress PLEDGES full support.
Do it that way, and victory is possible. Do it half-assed, and victory is not possible.
Fixed it.
I HEARD THAT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF REMAINING US TROOPS IN SYRIA WAS ONLY 50 PEOPLE
DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THAT IS TRUE?
As of a year or two ago, there were about 2,000 US military in Syria. But there is no way to know if the Obama-McCain military is truthful to the public or even to the president.
I agree, but who, exactly, are we declaring war upon? Syria? Turkey? “Some” of the Kurds, but not some of the others?
Congress, in turn, has shown no interest in genuinely challenging executive power, because its members are far more concerned with political self-preservation. Ignoring abuse shields them from tough choices and ensuing criticism—even as they use war as a partisan cudgel.
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It’s inevitable. It’s human nature. We follow the same trajectory as the old Roman Republic; with a Congress devolving into nothing more than pompous preening peacocks. They all want power without responsibility.
Congress loves to spout off about war and peace without having to take accountability either way by attaching their name and vote to the consequences.
There are no declarations anymore because Presidents stopped asking congress to declare war.
Wrong, chris. Congress SHOULD be fully invested in any war discussion. (I don’t trust the peckerheads either but follow along.)
Congress has the sole power of declaring war and they should exercise it. No “quickie” invasions or bombing missions. Either declare or step aside. By the same token, Congress should write laws and not just establish new “agencies” that will haunt us with their rules forever.
Either way ... fight or run ... we get to decide whether the clowns got it right or screwed things up. Come election time, we get to weed out the losers. They answer to us and I want MORE things to hold them accountable for.
A State is the only other power that can get into ‘war’. States have failed to protect their borders from invasion, which they are empowered to do.
Ideally, yes, but in practice the thing doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t work at all.
The body has proven itself to be both useless and evil.
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