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Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky excoriated a briefing from top Trump administration officials on the targeted drone strike that led to the death of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran s elite Quds Force. Lee called it worst briefing he s received on a military issue in his nine years in the Senate.Lee said it is not acceptable for officials from the executive branch mdash; whether it be Defense Department, the CIA or the White House mdash; to tell the Senate that they can t debate and discuss the appropriateness of military intervention against Iran. It s un-American, it s unconstitutional, and it s wrong, he added. The House is set to vote Thursday on a measure designed to limit Mr. Trump s military actions regarding Iran. Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, has al stanley termohrnek so intro stanley cup duced a war powers resolution in the Senate.Lee said he will back Kaine s resolution once changes are made. House to vote Thursday on war powers resolution 09:14 I walked into the briefing undecided. I walked out decided, specifically because of wh stanley cup becher at happened in that briefing, he said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, CIA Director Gina Haspel and actin Tigv Glenn Beck ending daily Fox News show
DEPARTMENT OF THE OBVIOUS....Item 1 comes from hawk s hawk Victor Davis Hanson, commenting on Lt. Gen. Rick Sanchez s recent stanley quencher speech about the Iraq war:A final point. What is depressing is that a host of formal civilian and military officials, who during their tenure assured everyone that victory over the insurgents was in sight, then, upon leaving in the wake of criticism one thinks of Bremer, Franks, Sanchez, etc. , post facto lambasted the effort. The net effect is a lack of credibility among the stanley cup military and civilian overseers 151; sort of why should I believe you now, since when and if you are relieved, you will only retroactively tell us how bad was what you now say is good. Item 2 comes from David Ignatius, suggesting that the United States needs a dignity agenda as much as it needs a democracy agenda :A final item on my dignity reading list is Violent Politics, a new book by the iconoclastic historian William R. Polk. He examines 10 insurgencies through history 151; from the American Revolution to the Irish struggle for independence to the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation 151; to make a stunningly simple point, which we managed to forget in Iraq: People don t like to be told what to do by outsiders. The very presence of foreigners, indeed, stimulates the sense first of apartness and ultimately of group cohesion. Foreign intervention offends people s dignity, Polk reminds us. That s why insurgencies are so hard to defeat.Italics mine. In tom stanley travel mug orrow |
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