Is there language in our Constitution which delegates to the President the power to start a major war and prosecute a major war without Congressional approval?agent-maroon said:Eliminatus said:
Politicians have, of should have, a moral and ethical obligation to spend our treasure and lives in meaningful conflicts. Not political dalliances and personal pursuits of power.
I hope you are not that ignorant or flippant towards the military. They are not automatons, blindly following orders with no thoughts of what or why they are doing what they doing. This is a really weird hill to fight on.
Not being flippant at all. But I realize that the President is the CIC and that he, hopefully under the advisement of others in his administration, has deemed this to be a "meaningful conflict" and is committing our military to carry out the mission of this conflict.
For better or worse, at the end of the day the only opinion that matters is the President's within the boundaries of the Constitution.
Iirc, the War Powers Act ceded some power to the office of the Presidency, but with limits. How far those limits went was heavily debated in 2002. GWB eventually chose to seek and get Congressional approval for the preemptive major war against Iraq.
If conquering Iran and installing a friendly ruling government in Iran is so vitally important, which it might possibly be, then the Wall Street elites and hedge fund class and trillion dollar private equity fund class and tech billionaire bros and Trump sons and TPUSA and American Jewish and Christian Zionists who support that should be willing to go serve on the front lines alongside the sons and daughters of us regular Americans. I want to see Ben Shapiro and Josh Hammer and Mark Levin and Peter Thiel in uniform in Iran putting their lives on the line. They have zero reluctance putting the lives of other Americans at risk.