It’s reported that President Obama was ready to order a military
strike against Syria, with or without Congress’s blessing, but “on
Friday night, he suddenly changed his mind.” According to the Huffington Post:
1. Why didn’t the president seek congressional authority before the administration began to beat the war drums this past week? Did the idea not occur to him? It’s not as if this is an obscure issue. When you’re in the White House and preparing to launch military force against a sovereign nation, whether or not to seek the approval of Congress is usually somewhere near the top of the to-do list.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/09/02/barack-obamas-staggering-incompetence/
Senior administration officials
describing Obama’s about-face Saturday offered a portrait of a president
who began to wrestle with his own decision – at first internally, then
confiding his views to his chief of staff, and finally summoning his
aides for an evening session in the Oval Office to say he’d had a change
of heart.
In light of all this, it’s worth posing a few questions:1. Why didn’t the president seek congressional authority before the administration began to beat the war drums this past week? Did the idea not occur to him? It’s not as if this is an obscure issue. When you’re in the White House and preparing to launch military force against a sovereign nation, whether or not to seek the approval of Congress is usually somewhere near the top of the to-do list.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/09/02/barack-obamas-staggering-incompetence/
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