01-09-2020, 08:26 AM
(01-09-2020, 04:57 AM)Benton Wrote: The Kuwait situation was one thing. We had a clear goal, we acheived that goal, we left.
The Iraq invasion was all sorts of a mess. The goal was unattainable short of wiping out all of the middle East. And it's just gotten worse.
This is all thanks to Congress, to be quite frank. Congress has failed to rein in the President ever since Bush. They passed two AUMFs with specific purposes. The first one has been used to justify many actions that it was not intended to cover and what has Congress done? Not a damn thing. A few members have tut-tutted about, but the legislative body has the power to put a stop to it and has refused to.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
