Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged?
These questions should be critical to a public debate over U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and the Middle East. Sadly, there has been no great debate. The media are mouthing what the CIA is telling them, and only a few websites and podcasts — my own, “Judging Freedom” on YouTube, among them — are challenging the government’s reckless, immoral, illegal and unconstitutional wars.All power in the federal government comes from the Constitution and from no other source.
Congress not only has not declared war on Russia, it has not authorized the use of American military force against it. Yet it has given President Biden a blank check for $113 billion and authorized him to give cash and military equipment to Ukraine however he sees fit. U.S. involvement in Vietnam began the same way: no declaration of war, no authorization of the use of military force, yet a gradual, presidentially ordered buildup of American troops as advisers and instructors, and then a congressionally supported war that saw half a million American troops deployed, 10% of whom came home in body bags.
Don’t be surprised if Mr. Biden gives War Powers Act notice secretly to the Gang of Eight. The Gang of Eight is the Congress within the Congress. It consists of the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate with which the president legally shares secrets.
Beyond an imminent attack, the basis for war must be real, the adversary’s anti-U.S. military behavior must be grave, the objective of war must be clear and attainable, and the means must be proportionate to the threat.
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