(February 12, 2015 at 3:12 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I should have been clearer: Congress should have to approve it with a declaration of war. Thanks for catching that.
WPA makes it far too easy for a President to commit troops on the short-term to combat. And Congressionally-approved commitments of troops without war being declared still make it easier to dodge things like the Geneva Conventions, thereby tempting our leaders to order atrocities as we've seen happen in the so-called "War on Terror"
Well then make that argument. I look at the totality of our war policy since our founding and from the start America outside WW1 and WW2 has been horrible in it's decision making other than the sane ones who pull us out after making the mistakes.
Obama is stuck because he is holding a baton passed to him that every president has used.
