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Syria Withdraw and Middle East Wars

January 13, 2019 • Host: Keith Bessette / Ed Vidal • Season 1 • Episode 10

Trump's December 2018 Syria full withdraw order and the Middle East wars since George Bush Sr. are discussed with guest Eduardo Vidal. Ed is the co-host of the Concrete Conservatives talk show on WSQF FM Key Biscayne/Miami and online, and is the corporate lawyer for a software firm. We talk about the multitude of excuses used to conduct the war in Syria and touch on a few of the many Middle East wars the US has engaged in over the last two decades. The Constitution and legislation with which Congress unconstitutionally delegated their power to declare war to the President are covered.

Keith rants a bit about the dismal failures of the many US interventions in the Middle East. The US military is excellent when allowed to win a fight. But the track record of what happens next with installing new governments is dismal.

A potential solution of a Constitution change proposed by the States in an Article V Convention for proposing Amendments is considered. An amendment could eliminate most future U.S. military actions in the Middle East by:
(1) reminding the government that Congress is the only branch with the expressly delegated power to declare war, and
(2) explicitly denying the President the power to send armed forces into battle without a Congressional declaration of war.

Such an amendment falls under the Convention of States Action topic of limiting the power and jurisdiction of the Federal government, putting it back to what the founders intended. It also falls into the fiscal responsibility topic.

The US military should not be world's police force, spending trillions of dollars protecting other countries. It should not overthrow other governments because DC politicians prefer some different form of government. Not our job, not what the founders wanted, and it is ludicrously expensive.