I come up with you continuing to put Iran into the picture to either muddy the waters or confuse the issue.
Were there or were there not orders to deploy to Iran?
It’s the scientific process. You use a hypothetical situation (such as deployment orders to Iran) and see what results you come out with.
Sort of like when you solve for x in an equation, and then to check your work you plug in the answer you got and see if it actually comes out true. If it doesn’t come out true then you know that you did something wrong when you solved for x.
Denise Lind came up with the answer that approval by a valid President is irrelevant to the lawfulness of brigade commanders’ deployment orders.
OK, if that’s so then we should be able to plug that answer into the equation for a brigade commander ordering combat troops to Iran. What we would get is that brigade commanders can order combat deployments to ANYWHERE, regardless of whether a valid POTUS has ever approved of the use of force there.
If that’s how Lind’s answer works, would you say she has the right answer, or would you say she screwed up somewhere?