The Fastest Way to Destroy America ....

An American was killed on U.S. soil, by terrorists funded and orchestrated through Iran, a long and well-known sponsor of terror around the globe for the past several decades. The strike on our U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, on New Year’s Eve, was planned by Iran’s top General of the Iranian Military, Khasamin Soleimani , and executed by a pro-Iranian terrorist faction in Iraq. The protesters even scribbled on the wall of our embassy “Khasamin Soleimani is our leader.” Actually, it is rather brilliant of Iran to have one of its top military officials carrying out these attacks by proxy, because when America strikes back, meeting strength with strength --which history has shown is really the only thing the Iranian regime understands and respects-- Iran can claim that American has attacked the State of Iran proper. One would expect the latter response from the government of Iran, not so from members of the U.S. Government because the distinction in this case is absurd. Iranian military leader or not, General Soleimani  was executing the role of a terrorist, both from a financial as well as a logistical standpoint.

Given this brazen act of violence, perpetrated on American soil and resulting in the death of an American citizen, one would unequivocally expect Americans to be united in outrage and in support of our President when he determines a timely, proportional and measured course of action in response to a terrorist attack. This, unfortunately, much to the detriment of our Union, is not presently the case. How so? Because a substantial number of our top body of elected officials, the United States Congress .. the voice of “We the People”.. have chosen not only to outright dismiss support for the President in his counter action response --namely, the taking out of General Soleimani by drone strike-- but these same ‘geniuses’ go even further in the direction of counterproductive dis-unity by issuing a non-binding, non-standard (lacking procedural due diligence) resolution enumerating what is already explicitly stated in our U.S. Constitution, namely  that 1) “The President shall be the Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the Militia of the several States”, Article II, Section 2 of U.S. Constitution, while 2) The U.S. Congress shall retain the power to "declare [outright] war".  It should be noted that several congressional "Authorization(s) for Use of Military Force" have been issued to clarify the role/right of the President to carry out single strike military operations in defense of the nation in aftermath of 911, in the new age of terrorism, where all such authorizations are extensions of the 1973 "War Powers Act".  The latter all make the clear distinction that such strikes fall far short of outright war.

Now is the time to re-state the obvious? I think NOT! This congressional non-binding resolution does little to effect actual change with respect to the President’s authority to protect our nation where acts of terrorism are concerned, as stated above. The Constitution clearly states that only the U.S. Congress has the power to declare war --Article I, Section 8 of U.S. Constitution-- but President Trump’s actions were not designed to bring America into an actual war as the government of Iran and its supporters would have you believe [And if you look at President Trump’s actions to date, his actions speak of a President committed to bringing Americans back home and ending our decades long standing posture in the Middle East]. The President’s actions were instead a direct, timely, measured and proportional response --given the intelligence he had available to him at the time-- to an attack on Americans, with the added benefit of taking out a key orchestrator of future attacks on Americans, per information provided by our intelligence sources. What this most recent congressional non-binding resolution does achieve, however, is to make the United States of America look weak, disorganized and a far cry from united in the face an outright attack of Americans on American soil --for U.S. embassies around the globe are considered to actually be American soil.  This current non-binding congressional resolution serves as nothing more than a political slap on the hand of OUR President, in a ludicrous restatement of the obvious. How shameful?

Aside from whole impeachment charade, I have never been more disappointed in our United States Congress, particularly the Republican Congressmen from the 114th Congressional Session who crossed the aisle in order to vote with the Democrats on said ‘resolution’. The disservice these Congressmen do the sovereignty and unity of nation is beyond egregious. Our Founding Fathers would be aghast at what our nation has become these past few years since the election of President Donald J. Trump. Given the events since President Trump’s election, especially in light of these most recent events, I am left profoundly wondering if America is even capable of ever repairing the ever-widening chasms of our national divide? I mean if you cannot find unity in the face of an outright attack on the United States of America, when can you ever find true unity???????? The fastest way to destroy America is from within ......