Years of U.S. overextension, unchecked drawdowns, and refusal to treat tradeoffs and scarcity as real factors caused this munitions crisis.
Now lawmakers want to throw billions more at the problem without addressing the lack of restraint and foresight which caused the shortage in the first place. I detail why this is the wrong approach in my latest for @RStatecraft ⬇️
Generally when Mark Levin, Lindsey Graham, Mark Dubowitz and Roger Wicker are all complaining about a certain course of action, that’s confirmation that you should carry on with said course of action.
Pompeo’s “straightforward” prescription: Do more of what America has already tried to do, which has helped the IRCG to control Iran and Iran to control the strait.
He’s given them a massive, unprecedented Iran war, every sanctions package and terrorist designation under the sun, and his second Administration’s political capital.. and now they’re going to dump him!
Excellent points here from @katherinet57@CatoFP : It began w/the abuse of Presidential Drawdown Authority for Ukraine War; PDA was never supposed to fund foreign wars using US military stockpiles. Then came the other wars. What did we expect?
https://t.co/1SAv0bNQic
Years of U.S. overextension, unchecked drawdowns, and refusal to treat tradeoffs and scarcity as real factors caused this munitions crisis.
Now lawmakers want to throw billions more at the problem without addressing the lack of restraint and foresight which caused the shortage in the first place. I detail why this is the wrong approach in my latest for @RStatecraft ⬇️
Next Tuesday, May 19 at 11:00, please come to @CatoFP to hear @LianaFix, @jekavanagh, and me discuss plans to withdraw troops from Germany (or Poland, as the case may be). @katherinet57 will moderate and a luncheon will follow: https://t.co/Gskm88aQa0
Keep an eye on which staffers get praised by the very! objective! Capitol Hill press and which ones get shamed by them. Everything - including the spin - that campus reporters do is for access
Here @MrMaitra and I applaud POTUS' effort to withdraw troops from Germany.
He should start with the Second Cavalry, and he should bring them home, not send them eastward.
Since we're all being completely honest today, I'll jump in as well.
The War Powers Resolution is functionally dead. My latest blog argues repeated failure to use the War Powers Resolution is not productive. It is time Congress to develop a new and improved tool because arguments like this from the modern Executive branch cannot stand. ⬇️
.@SecRubio: "The War Powers Act is unconstitutional—100%. Now, this is not the position of me, not the position of @POTUS now, this is the position of every single president that has occupied this position since the day that law passed... We comply with it in terms of like notification because we want to preserve good relations with Congress... but even as a senator, I would say that the war powers act is 100% unconstitutional."
Perfectly laid out here by @justinamash and this is exactly why my pitch is for Congress to scrap the War Powers Resolution as written and draft a new tool. It’s time.
Straight out of 1984:
Declare an indefinite ceasefire.
Claim hostilities are “terminated.”
Tell Congress: War Powers Resolution clock resets.
Maintain a military blockade, which is an act of war.
Launch further hostilities at any time.
Fight for another 60 days.
(Repeat.)