Congress has wanted nothing to do with conflicts in an official capacity for the last 50-60 years. They want sound bytes in unofficial interviews for grandstanding and to be able to blame everyone else.

This is actually a result of those decades of congress, regardless of party in control, abdicating their constitutional duty. For a recent example, check out post 9/11 and congress.

Remember the Republican reaction when Obama did the same thing in Libya?

Reeeeeee! 72 hours to get our approval or we'll impeach you! Reeeeeee! Not authorized! Not funded!

Then when our embassy there... in Benghazi... was attacked... it was years of "Reeeee! Why didn't you DO something??!?!?!"

Another terrorist group fucks around and finds out.

The last war declared by Congress was ~~Korea in the early 1950s~~ in WW2. Dark Brandon doesn't have time for this foolishness. Yemen was warned again and again. They've now entered the find out stage.

edit: brain worms

Jesus fucking Christ, Congress is peak dysfunction.

Some progressives need to put down the flowers and smoke some bad guys now and then. Conservatives need to cram their sabers up their own asses and die.

I'll take soft progressives over the other any day of the week, but demanding Congressional approval is fucking absurd right now. It'll take 8 months and be filled with unrelated laws, financial packages for Ohio and Texas, and pro-oil deregulation.

They might have a stronger case if they haven't proven to be a 'do nothing' Congress. They can't even put together a budget.

No one is saying let the planet go to hell

Yes, yes they are. Maybe not you, but there are billionaires saying exactly that.

So are they going to repeal the War Powers Act? Are we going back to needing a Declaration of War to deal with every pissant pirate?

Asking Congress is a surefire way to get nothing done.

Isn't fighting piracy like legal for everyone? Like a private citizen or any country's military could go out there and hunt pirates. I remember that from when the somali pirates got yeeted.