who knows what will happen in response if anything? is the united states going to pursue a military strategy that s aimed at regime change in syria now? today, who knows? and next week, who wants to bet? we don t understand how it is the policy changed 180 degrees from last week. how will we know it s not going to change again next week? the founders of our country tried to invest the power to make war in the united states congress instead of in the presidency. and they did that for a reason. it s hard to get elected officials from all over the country vote to start a war. congress wouldn t even take a vote on president obama s request to them to authorize military force in syria in 2013. congress is structurally disinclined toward war, and the founders knew they would be. they knew that a deliberative body would be less likely to
who knows what will happen in response, if anything? is the united states going to pursue a military strategy that s aimed at regime change in syria now? the administration would have said that was nuts a week ago. but today, who knows? and next week, who wants to bet? we don t understand how it is the policy changed 180 degrees from last week. how will we know it s going to change 180 degrees to next week? the founders of our country tried to invest the power to make war in the united states congress instead of in the presidency. and they did that for a reason. it is hard to get a legislature from hundreds of elected officials from all over the country to vote to start a war. congress wouldn t even take a vote on president obama s request to them to authorize military force in syria in 2013. congress is structurally disinclined toward war, and the founders knew they would be. they knew that a deliberative
officials from all over the country to vote to start a war. congress wouldn t even take a vote on president obama s request to them to authorize u.s. military force in syria in 2013. congress is structurally disinclined toward war and the founders knew they would be. they knew that a deliberative body would be less likely to wage war recklessly as compared to one person who could make that kind of decision alone. over these past couple of generations, we have let that constitutional imperative slip. and now we ve got, in power, a person with the war-making powers of a modern american president who is also a person that is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation by the fbi because of the possibility that he colluded with a foreign power in order to become president. he also appears to have no moring whatsoever in the day-to-day basics of foreign policy.
military force in syria in 2013. congress is structurally disinclined toward war, and the founders knew they would be. they knew that a deliberatetive body would be less likely to wage war rec leslie as compared to one person who can make that decision alone. over these past couple generations, we have let that constitutional imperative slip. and now we ve got in power a person with the war making powers off a modern american president who is also a person that is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation by the fbi because of the possibility that he concluded with a foreign power in oer to become presen he also appears to have no morring whatsoever in the day-to-day basics of foreign policy. but he has just gotten the first good press of his young presidency, and he got it by turning on a dime doing
president obama will sign the bill if it reaches his desk. current law requires a person to be out of the military to be seven years before becoming the pentagon chief. general mattis retired in 2013. congress has granted one civilian waiver in 1950. this vote comes after mattis testified in a senate committee saying that he believes russian president vladimir putin is trying to break nato. he said that he has modest expectations about putin cooperating with the united states. jennifer griffin is live. who is leading the charge against mattis in the house and senate? it s interesting, shep. this house vote is turning into more of a nail-biter. they thought it would be easier to get the waiver through the house because republicans control a larger portion of the house. what happened on the eve of the testimony is that the trump transition team cancelled mattis appearance before the house armed services committee where he will be asked about