Congress Can’t Meet Its Own Iran-War Deadline

Given a chance to rein in a wildly unpopular, unsuccessful, and likely illegal war, Congress might just do nothing. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"Given a chance to rein in a wildly unpopular, unsuccessful, and likely illegal war, Congress might just do nothing—the latest sign of how ineffectual the body has become..." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“Congress has hit its 60-day deadline to authorize Donald Trump’s war in Iran or else force him to end the conflict—but lawmakers still appear unwilling or unable to do anything,” @GrahamDavidA argues in The Atlantic Daily: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Congress has hit its 60-day deadline to authorize Donald Trump’s war in Iran or else force him to end the conflict—but lawmakers still appear unwilling or unable to do anything, @GrahamDavidA argues in The Atlantic Daily: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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When he claimed he could've "ended Vietnam quicker", (the war he draft-dodged), he meant, "If I close my eyes it will disappear", like an infant: 👇🤡🙄 "The admin & Rep. leaders have decided to pretend the war is simply over, freeing themselves of any need to act." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"The administration and Republican leaders have decided to pretend the war is simply over, freeing themselves of any need to act. ... " ... This is absurd. Trump’s interpretation would allow a president to engineer cease-fires every two weeks to escape congressional involvement."

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"How Congress decides to handle Iran is important, given that the war has been thus far a strategic, moral, and legal failure. But the underlying questions of legislative power are much deeper than the current acute crisis." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"The war’s existence is itself a sign of Congress’s weakness. The Constitution gives the power to declare war to the legislative branch, and Trump neither sought nor received it in this case." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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So very much rests on the next two US federal elections. We should live so long.

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Congress has hit its 60-day deadline to authorize Donald Trump’s war in Iran or else force him to end the conflict—but lawmakers still appear unwilling or unable to do anything, @GrahamDavidA argues in The Atlantic Daily: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It assumes Congress will act, and as is clear by now, this is not a safe bet...Right now, Congress doesn’t seem up to the job. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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