President Barack Obama said that he has made the decision to use military power against Syria and would seek for permission from Congress when it came back from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this careless and wrong use of the US army. But, even if every individual Member and Senator votes for another war, it will not make this dreadful concept any better, because some kind of nod is given to the Constitution along the way.
Besides, Obama made it obvious that Congressional permission is unnecessary, saying incorrectly that he has the power to act on his own with or without the legislature. That the legislature allows itself to be handled as window dressing by the imperial president is just unbelievable. According to latest press reviews, the army does not have enough cash to strike Syria and would have to go to the legislature for an extra appropriation to bring out the attacks. It seems our kingdom is at the end of its economical string. The restricted attacks that Obama has asked for in Syria would cost the US in the millions of dollars of cash. Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Martin Dempsey had written to the Congress that just the training of Syrian rebels and “limited” rocket and air attacks would cost “in the billions” of dollars. We should clearly know what another war will do to the U.S. economic system, in addition to the consequences of extra unidentified expenses such as a raise in energy expenses as oil increases exponentially.
In “The Sociology of Imperialism,” Joseph Schumpeter had written of the Roman Empire’s reckless interventionism: “There was no area of the known globe where some interest was not claimed to be in risk or under real strike. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome’s allies; and if the capital had no allies, then allies would be developed. When it was absolutely difficult to contrive an interest, why, then it was the nationwide honor that had been insulted.” The Sociology of Imperialism is almost chillingly familiar with the current state of the country.