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Stephen's avatar

Yup, agree. The diagnosis is correct, but the prescription is not necessarily right.

Support for Ukraine, even now but especially 6 months ago (!!!!), would do more for deterrence and stability than even the most well executed precision strike at Iran. Of course, simple minds (ie GOP reps) and even intelligent but misguided minds will make noise about needing to lash out at Iran with hard power.

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BriDub's avatar

Hard agree. "America backs her allies 110%" is much more of a deterrent than "Sometimes an American president wants to support our allies 80%, but Congress won't let him."

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

That's what we get with a constitution that has separation of powers. Congress controls the purse.

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