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
body would be less likely to wage war recklessly as compared to one person who can make that kind of a 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 mooring 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 something completely contrary to his stated foreign policy and deciding, what the heck, let s bomb something.
wage war recklessly 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 order to become president. 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 something completely contrary to his stated foreign policy and deciding what the heck, let s bomb something.