It would be nice if the Congress could “declare war.” This AUF crap being passed like the naming of a post office has to stop.
War, and all the crap that comes with it should be considered more seriously than the way these fools approach impeachment.
I read somewhere that one of America’s problems is that we won WW II too decisively. That great victory made the United States see itself as invincible. We could do anything. We would win any future conflict.
So there was no need to be cautious. There was no need to weigh all the pluses and minuses.
Korea and Vietnam should have broken that fanciful thinking. But it did not. It persists to this day.
And this feeds into your post. It is the job of Congress to be cautious, to weigh all the pluses and minuses. But since 1945 those cowards have abandoned their duty.
It takes BOTH the People (House) and the States (Senate) to do it, and this language is self-explanatory:
"the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial Government of Japan; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
So Congress DIRECTS the President what to do, and Congress PLEDGES the resources to do it.
The results of foreign adventures when the People of the United States do NOT declare war should by now be obvious to anyone with eyes to see or ears to hear.
Could we do the things all these warmongers are clamoring for? Perhaps.
Could we do them without the People declaring war? Ridiculous.