I've been saying exactly this. It is the duty of congress. There doesn't need to be dithering and political hand-wringing. It a constitutional duty to IMPEACH.
The GOP just blocked a War Powers Act resolution to stop threats of collective punishment by ending Iranian civilization. Trump’s threats, intentionally or not, are likely what prevented the legal approval the military needed to launch such a large scale attack on Iran. So, while Hegseth and Netanyahu may be working to reset stated goals in order to get legal blessings to destroy a civilization, why would you want Democrats to focus on the presently impossible task of impeachment when they should be relentlessly linking the GOP with this nearly total strategic failure in foreign policy and un-American threats to commit crimes against humanity?
The lack of accountability for Trump after Jan-6, allowing him back on the ballot, etc, represents a historic failure of our political experts. One of the reasons for this is that it creates a precedent that makes it unclear how anyone can be impeached again. Without first addressing the crisis of expertise that has led to this in the field of politics, you're left advocating doing the same thing again expecting a different result. Another failed impeachment would only further weaken Congress and further discredit the impeachment mechanism.
However, this is secondary to the issue of the reason given here for impeachment. The poorly grounded ideas of "genocide," and "international laws," etc, are all part of the same problem that foisted Trump on us in the first place. We have an unprecedented erosion of serious thinking in politics. This is The Crisis that needs addressing before anything else.
I would disagree on just one point. Trump threatened to destroy the Iranian civilization by destroying its infrastructure, specifically power plants and bridges, not by killing the whole population. Many people would still die, some from the bombing, many more from starvation and lack of access to medical care. Saturation bombing with conventional weapons would be the logical way to do this; nuclear weapons, which put a lot of destruction into a smaller area, would be less effective. I'd still count it as genocide.
What's happening in the U.S. is just depressing. I'm a moderate, I believe in rational and well thought out planning and decision making. Also, what happened to civility? I prefer limited government, but that ship seems to have sailed. All we seem to have are politicians that live in party echo-chambers and who seem to exercise no free-thought, free-will, or conscience of their own. We have a congress full of mindless bobbleheads. Our current path is precisely how people like Stalin, Putin, and Hitler come to power...with zero checks and zero balance. Wars like this also cost us a fortune; between tariffs, rising energy costs, and just the cost of this military exercise itself, how are we supposed to pay for this, anybody, anybody? There are so many parallels with the downfall of the Roman Empire and the current fall of the U.S. that we are experiencing; so much for learning from history.
The annoying thing is we could totally keep the strait open if we were willing to take casualties and commit ground troops to do it. It doesn't take destroying their civilization, or even their civilian infrastructure. Iy just takes not being a pussy, going to congress, getting an actual AUMF, and letting the generals do what they do best. Even if it means some us soldiers will die. But Trump lives in this fantasy world where everything g he does is a great victory, so isn't willing to do what it takes. Thinks it can all be accomplished with air power and zero casualties. Of course we should never have gotten onto this in the first place, but it's not like the only alternative to surrender is genocide.
I've been saying exactly this. It is the duty of congress. There doesn't need to be dithering and political hand-wringing. It a constitutional duty to IMPEACH.
The GOP just blocked a War Powers Act resolution to stop threats of collective punishment by ending Iranian civilization. Trump’s threats, intentionally or not, are likely what prevented the legal approval the military needed to launch such a large scale attack on Iran. So, while Hegseth and Netanyahu may be working to reset stated goals in order to get legal blessings to destroy a civilization, why would you want Democrats to focus on the presently impossible task of impeachment when they should be relentlessly linking the GOP with this nearly total strategic failure in foreign policy and un-American threats to commit crimes against humanity?
The lack of accountability for Trump after Jan-6, allowing him back on the ballot, etc, represents a historic failure of our political experts. One of the reasons for this is that it creates a precedent that makes it unclear how anyone can be impeached again. Without first addressing the crisis of expertise that has led to this in the field of politics, you're left advocating doing the same thing again expecting a different result. Another failed impeachment would only further weaken Congress and further discredit the impeachment mechanism.
However, this is secondary to the issue of the reason given here for impeachment. The poorly grounded ideas of "genocide," and "international laws," etc, are all part of the same problem that foisted Trump on us in the first place. We have an unprecedented erosion of serious thinking in politics. This is The Crisis that needs addressing before anything else.
I would disagree on just one point. Trump threatened to destroy the Iranian civilization by destroying its infrastructure, specifically power plants and bridges, not by killing the whole population. Many people would still die, some from the bombing, many more from starvation and lack of access to medical care. Saturation bombing with conventional weapons would be the logical way to do this; nuclear weapons, which put a lot of destruction into a smaller area, would be less effective. I'd still count it as genocide.
What's happening in the U.S. is just depressing. I'm a moderate, I believe in rational and well thought out planning and decision making. Also, what happened to civility? I prefer limited government, but that ship seems to have sailed. All we seem to have are politicians that live in party echo-chambers and who seem to exercise no free-thought, free-will, or conscience of their own. We have a congress full of mindless bobbleheads. Our current path is precisely how people like Stalin, Putin, and Hitler come to power...with zero checks and zero balance. Wars like this also cost us a fortune; between tariffs, rising energy costs, and just the cost of this military exercise itself, how are we supposed to pay for this, anybody, anybody? There are so many parallels with the downfall of the Roman Empire and the current fall of the U.S. that we are experiencing; so much for learning from history.
The annoying thing is we could totally keep the strait open if we were willing to take casualties and commit ground troops to do it. It doesn't take destroying their civilization, or even their civilian infrastructure. Iy just takes not being a pussy, going to congress, getting an actual AUMF, and letting the generals do what they do best. Even if it means some us soldiers will die. But Trump lives in this fantasy world where everything g he does is a great victory, so isn't willing to do what it takes. Thinks it can all be accomplished with air power and zero casualties. Of course we should never have gotten onto this in the first place, but it's not like the only alternative to surrender is genocide.
The Republicans don’t care.