Berkeley City Council Doing Its Anti-Democracy Bit

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Radar

No, the Constitution just says the only valid use of the U.S. military is for defending America.

No it doesn't. While the Constitution mentions the common defense, defensive warfighting was not a shibboleth of the Founders. Indeed, the Constitution says essentially nothing about how foreign policy shall be conducted -- and a moment's thought will show you it shouldn't.

Lying in the service of antiimperialism, radar, is just plain ridiculous. Especially when we are the premier nonimperialist great power. It becomes ridiculous through lack of necessity.