A Vital U.S. Interest?
Justin O. Smith * American Thinker
The Executive Branch has become increasingly powerful over the past century, simply because Congress has not successfully checked the president whenever a power overreach occurred. So now, more from fear of being mocked than dismay over 1,429 dead, including 400 children, Obama has placed himself in a politically precarious position, and the U.S. in a dangerous military venture, over his “red line” comment and the use of weapons of mass destruction. He is poised to intervene in Syria through cruise missile strikes, with or without congressional approval, since he has not let that stop him in the past in foreign or domestic policy.
The War Powers Act (WPA) is very clear on this matter. A U.S. president can act in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and engage an enemy of our nation only when an attack has already occurred or is imminent against the U.S. or one of our allies, or when a vital U.S. interest is under a heavy threat.
President Bill Clinton acted outside the WPA when he involved the U.S. in the Serbian conflict. When President Ronald Reagan sent the U.S. Marines to Grenada, he did so to protect U.S. citizens attending medical school on the island from a Cuban invasion force.
Obama is essentially damned if he commits to this limited surgical strike and damned if he doesn’t. Two weeks ago, it wasn’t a question of if, but a question of when President Obama was going to order a strike on Syria on his own authority – but now, after speaking with Denis McDonough, White House Chief of Staff, Obama seems quite reticent to act on his own and without congressional approval, which led Syria’s state-run newspaper, Al Thawra, to call this “the start of the historic American retreat.”
What vital interest of the U.S. is at stake in Syria, and what risk of imminent attack exists?
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What is the vital U.S. interest in a war with Syria? Is it that we should stand up for the weak? We left that ideology long ago. The only interest that our congress and president support now has to with money. TERM LIMITS FOR ALL OF THEM.
The author of the article seems to have no sense of the bigger picture in Syria. Why has the US State Department been involved in the sequential destabilization of Egypt, Libya and now Syria? What is the overarching agenda? Why has our government involved itself deeply with the Muslim Brotherhood?