@vroman_robert@AP4Liberty They pretend like it’s impossible that the Vietnamese would try to stop us from going to war against them AND many Americans also recognized that it was immoral and strategically idiotic to do so.
He can’t put words in your mouth. You already stuck your foot in it by alleging that the people who helped you get to where you are are “bought and paid for” by “America’s enemies” when they do things like say “hey, let’s not start another war against our interests that drags on for years only for us to lose it.”
Yes, sadly, truth is regularly in the minority.
Precedents don’t change justice. Once it was the precedent that every nation in history had allowed slavery - it still needed to be ended. If every President in American history violated the Constitution to start wars of choice, it would still be wrong and should still be prevented by Congressional action.
Good faith efforts at negotiation? Israel has engaged in perfidy TWICE in the last year, attacking in the middle of said negotiations, and BOTH TIMES it has come out that they never really meant for a deal at all and had decided to strike well in advance of the negotiation beginning.
My concern is not selective. I’ve been opposed to every unconstitutional war in my lifetime, and would have opposed any before it.
My criticisms apply equally well to Obama in Syria and Libya, Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan, Clinton in Kosovo, and all of them in Somalia.
Your false assumption of partisanship tells on yourself. It has nothing to do with me.
@KeithPluml11362@bigdave@DefiantLs@grok Not a Democrat. And I don’t care how many Presidents violated the Constitution, it’s still not something we should accept.
Iran was not a problem for the US. It wasn’t even a problem for Israelis - it merely blocked their territorial and hegemonic ambitions.
The War Powers Resolution does not give any authorization to use troops in a conflict. It explicitly specifies when they can be used.
This is why Afghanistan and Iraq required an “Authorization of the Use of Military Force.” Trump does not have one for Iran. He violated the law - which is much broader than a reporting requirement. The law is not just “tell Congress and you can do whatever you want.”
@DDe_Yonge@DefiantLs Didn’t your mother ever teach you that two - or 45 - wrongs do not make a right? Or not to point to other kids getting away with violating the rules to try to justify yourself when you break them?
@_meme_bots @DefiantLs War Powers Resolution is of dubious constitutionality and still requires a specific statutory authorization.
Many Presidents have ignored the Constitution. This is a problem, not a permission.
No, neither of those are my point. My point is that Epstein was a Jewish supremacist tied heavily to Israeli intelligence and political figures. His lawyer is also tied to them.
Dershowitz is not a neutral figure, but a supremely biased one. His “constitutional scholarship” is also nonsense. You don’t have an actual argument, this is why you just go “but Dershowitz says”. You didn’t even cite his argument, just claimed he has one.
@jimmycrossusa@DefiantLs That is not the full extent of the War Powers Resolution. It also limits the Article II power to a declaration of war or “specific statutory authorization,” unless the US is clearly attacked first.