***It does give us pause that articles such as this don’t discuss the unconstitutionality of an attack on a NATO ally. The NATO treaty is the Supreme Law of the land and the Constitution.***
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It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas. Every molecule in the body of almost every uniformed American service member is likely to reject doing something they have spent a lifetime training never to do, but the United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now.
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Imagine if you are in the military of a fellow NATO country. The American troops you have trained with and fought with in Afghanistan are now enemy combatants.
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***It does give us pause that articles such as this don’t discuss the unconstitutionality of an attack on a NATO ally. The NATO treaty is the Supreme Law of the land and the Constitution.***
Excerpt:
It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas. Every molecule in the body of almost every uniformed American service member is likely to reject doing something they have spent a lifetime training never to do, but the United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now.
Imagine if you are in the military of a fellow NATO country. The American troops you have trained with and fought with in Afghanistan are now enemy combatants.
WWIII is not inconceivable.
Only Congress can stop this madness.