Editor,
Many hawks in Washington and London these days are crying for military intervention (i.e. war) in Syria. To do nothing, they argue, will cost the credibility of the United States who warned Syria against using chemical weapons.
Editor,
Many hawks in Washington and London these days are crying for military intervention (i.e. war) in Syria. To do nothing, they argue, will cost the credibility of the United States who warned Syria against using chemical weapons.
Never mind that in the past the United States allowed the government of Saddam Hussein to use the same Sarin gas against Iranians and against Iraqi Kurds.
If credibility is so important for these hawks, they should follow their own advice, form their own international brigade and go fight in Syria. We as a nation, on the other hand, have a far more important credibility to protect: the credibility of our Constitution.
Since the White House has already waited so many months to get involved, could the president (if he decided war was necessary) spend a few extra weeks to honor the war-declaration process as stipulated in the Constitution?
His credibility as a constitutional scholar is at stake.
Fred Perry
Daly City
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