perpetual war, joy, and that is very dangerous. it s sort of ironic that we re now in this sort of terrifying posture with north korea, which was the first undeclared war and the last time the united states declared war was obviously world war ii. do you worry we will wind up at war again without the congress weighing in and actually making a declaration? absolutely. i worry. it s very dangerous, and in fact, we need to be in washington, d.c. right now debating not only an authorization for syria but an authorization if, in fact, the president decides to use force, what that means in terms of north korea. these are perilous times, and leaders are provoking each other. and i think that now is the time once again as i said in 2001 to step back. members of congress are elected to do the hard work. right. to make hard decisions, and we should be there debating this
quite naturally, members of congress are really feeling their way through in many respects. so i have asked several times now with some of my colleagues, speaker ryan, to bring us back out of recess so that we can have a debate actually and a vote because this blank check that they re using, the 2001 authorization sets the stage for perpetual war, joy, and that is very dangerous. it s sort of ironic that we re now in this sort of terrifying posture with north korea, which was the first undeclared war and the last time the united states declared war was obviously world war ii. do you worry we will wind up at war again without the congress weighing in and actually making a declaration? absolutely. i worry. it s very dangerous, and in fact, we need to be in washington, d.c. right now debating not only an authorization for syria but an authorization if, in fact, the president decides to use force,
perpetual war, joy, and that is very dangerous. it s sort of ironic that we re now in this sort of terrifying posture with north korea, which was the first undeclared war and the last time the united states declared war was obviously world war ii. do you worry we will wind up at war again without the congress weighing in and actually making a declaration? absolutely. i worry. it s very dangerous, and in fact, we need to be in washington, d.c. right now debating not only an authorization for syria but an authorization if, in fact, the president decides to use force, what that means in terms of north korea. these are perilous times, and leaders are provoking each other. and i think that now is the time once again as i said in 2001 to step back. members of congress are elected to do the hard work. right. to make hard decisions, and we should be there debating this and making decisions so that we can give the president the authority or not to move forward.