And fitting the Consiglieres of both wings of the Amerikan Eagle, it is done in a very reasonable fashion, invoking the Unconstitutionality of
...a resolution of the Congress of The United States of America that stated that the President of The United States of America can send troops into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the United States of America is already under attack or serious threat. The War Powers Act requires that the president notify Congress within 48 hours of committing troops to military action and forbids troops from remaining for more than 60 days without an authorization of force or a declaration of war.
I kid you not. One of the better shackles on the Unitary Presidency, one that every Preznit since Ronald Reagan has pretty well ignored, is being attacked with soft-spoken voices used to giving the Orders. Which means that, since the Wise Old Men of both sides of the government are for trashing it, like telcom immunity, this sucker has legs.
Now if you look up what's available about Warren Christopher, you'll find nothing but sweetness and light. He's been an integral part of every Democratic administration since LBJ: Deputy Attorney General for Johnson, Deputy Secretary of State for Carter, and Secretary of State for Clinton.
About the only thing a cursoral search will pull on him is a lot of Right-wing grumbling about peace breaking out all over when he's around. It's not like he's Poppy Bu$hie's boy Baker, who more or less stands out in his roles leading the Carlyle Group and being the legal advisor for the Saudi Royals.
Christopher's more main$tream in his side occupations outside of the White House. Okay, so he defended Exxon. So he's been on the Boards of Lockheed.
So Al Qaeda was founded in the Carter era. So during the 8 years of the Clinton administration Christopher ironed out the differences between the Balkans and mollified the Turks and the Kurds and Saddam and quietly made sure business from the West included our good Afghani brothers and their curious major export that no one Serious in Washington talked about or will talk about, to this day.
Although it's taken for a given elsewhere:
...Speaking to BBC radio, Antonio Maria Costa of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [UNODC] said Afghan insurgents collected a 10 per cent tax on the earnings of opium poppy farmers and processors in Taliban-controlled areas.
There were also other ways that the group skimmed money from the more than $1 billion generated last year by Afghanistan's opium trade, Costa said.
"One is protection to laboratories and the other is that the insurgents offer protection to cargo, moving opium across the border," he said.
Since the Taliban were forced from power in Kabul by a U.S.-led invasion in 2001, Afghanistan has become the world’s leading producer of opium.
By some estimates, more than 90 per cent of the world’s heroin originates in the opium poppy fields that can be found in almost all 34 Afghan provinces...
Yes, now the Idiot Prince's job is done, more reasonable men like Christopher and Baker can emerge from behind the scenes to Pontificate on the Wise Thing to Do, and profit even more from the new world order that will certainly break out all over once the Reasonable govern again.
We're so beyond Liberal and Conservative, so beyond Republican and Democrat, floating along on the Unity of the Free Market and Rational national interest.
[Thanks to The Dark Wraith for the graphic. Again]
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