The proper place to debate our foreign policy is the Congress

And they are failing abysmally. Partisan politics and advantages and fear of losing a debate is trumping our National interests. This is a terrible state of affairs.

The last 50 years of the rise of the President in having to do what he thinks best (about wars and warfighting), or just wants to do, has been so appallingly gone along with by our Congress. One hopes and assumes some consultation went on with selected members of Congress. This is shameful. But that is also water over the dam. Now let us return to the basics today, like declare war, or not, and as a Congress and Nation. And then explain it to us.

Our last 50 years or so Congressional representatives are acquiescent in this shameful trend. The alternatives, like limited authorization, or senses of Congress, are pitiful abdications of Congressional responsibility. It’s not the finances, it is the political intent. All this has led to the mess in Iraq. Either we fight to win, or get out, seems to be the present situation. Either we sustain our faith by votes to do the executives and congressional wills in Iraq, or we quit. Unfortunately , this Iraq war has gone on long enough to where we can even vote on the competency of those waging this war. Also it has gone on long enough for disingenuous politicians to try trick we voters.

Let us return to the competency idea. Who in the executive or the congress has demonstrated competency?

Let us return to the policy idea. Are we realists, or idealists? Is Iraq, and the region often called Mesopotamia, in our vital National interest?

One more example. Can we have a real debate about the Turk genocide of Armenians, and the value of whether to have a resolution or not today. Again, water over the dam seems to apply.

The intent of this post is to say we voters are in charge. And being in charge means expecting debates of foreign policy in Congress, mostly the House of Representatives. Anything less subjects us to control freaks who act in their best interests, while citing they are doing it for us. Is it their D.C. judgment, or we the voters?