Iran Situation

[Benton]

(01-09-2020, 08:26 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

Agreed. And it's mind boggling.

We're two decades (nearly) into military action to deal with terrorists responsible for an attack on us soil (at least, that was how it was sold). 20 years and it's not working? It's like our military is being led by Marvin Lewis with Congress serving as the Brown family. 'well, it's really hard to win, so we'll just see how this plays out.'

It's not working. And Congress isn't doing their job by throwing money at it year after year.