Democrats’ Venezuela hypocrisy ignores reality — ‘war powers’ rules are dead

While most presidents circumvented the Constitution, the notion that an international organization — not to mention one with permanent seats for communist China and totalitarian Russia — had any authority to dictate American military deployment was a direct attack on US self-determination. The Justice Department reportedly told lawmakers that the president doesn’t need congressional permission to destroy drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific because the strikes don’t meet the definition of “hostilities.” Trump has also threatened to close Venezuelan airspace — an act of war — and has reportedly told the nation’s strongman, Nicolás Maduro, to leave the country and allow for regime change.

Author: David Harsanyi

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