Senior Seminar, Part 11 of 12

Introduction

            This is the unedited paper I wrote for my senior seminar back in 2007.  I am posting it as a sort of trip down memory lane during our current apocalypse.

            I have become a better writer since creating this.

            I have become much better informed since writing this.

            I am a very different person than when I wrote this.

Full Introduction Here

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How will Congressional budgeting remain the best avenue to control of future conflicts?

The core reason that this method cannot work is that it was not advertised as a political recourse from the beginning of the Iraqi conflict.  The Congress failed to communicate their intentions to be strong legal authorities and participants within the conflict, and failed to frame for the public the exact method of their recourse should they find the conflict failing to meet with expectations, or if the conflict becomes too great a burden for the United States people.  The Congress neglected a preemptive plan of political recourse in this instance and to that end have no recourse now.

If however the United States Congress becomes more involved in actively checking the movements of the President through use of language, and their greatest Constitutional power in the overseeing of the military, the military’s budget, then they will in the future be able to effectively check the President.  Simply utilizing the responsible language of “we will not let this become another Viet Nam, and if we see the President leading us to ruin we will pull the plug,” that phrase if stated by a strong Congressional leader at the outset would have saved the significant political quagmire that is currently forming from having ever existed.

In reality the removal of money worked in Viet Nam, but there are methods the military could have utilized, if so ordered, that would have patched the logistical hole, and while the idea of American Troops pillaging conquered countries does not mesh well with a romanticized view of history, it is hardly a leap from current activities.  Utilizing the resources found in the areas they are in would allow a least temporarily for a military to function beyond the means so provided by Congress, and in effect slip this particular Congressional lead, it would rarely work in the extreme long run, but it is a possible outcome of budgetary constraints.  So this must be considered as a possible venue the President could use to avoid the collapse of a Military Conflict if the Office Holder so wished.

  

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