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.
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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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