War Powers & Foreign Policy
Who decides when America goes to war, from Iran to Iraq to Afghanistan, in the Constitution's design and in the just-war traditions of the major faiths.
9 questions
- Striking Iran Without a Declaration of WarReligious traditions across the board place the decision to go to war in collective, accountable bodies — not in a single ruler.
- Does a 'Pause' Stop the War Powers Clock?The War Powers Resolution was Congress's answer to Vietnam — a bipartisan recognition that endless undeclared wars destroy democracies.
- 'America First' as a Foreign Policy DoctrinePutting your own people first is a duty every government and every faith tradition affirms.
- Military Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Without TrialDrug trafficking is a serious harm, and no religious tradition pretends otherwise.
- Declaring 'Peace' With Iran Thirty Times During a WarA leader in wartime may speak with hope; he may not speak as though hope were fact.
- Dismantling USAID and the Projected Death TollReligious traditions converge with unusual unanimity: the obligation to feed the hungry and heal the sick extends across borders, and the foreseeable…
- The Targeted Killing of Anwar al-AwlakiThe al-Awlaki case is one of the most important constitutional events of the past two decades, and one this site is applying its standards to a Democratic…
- The 2021 Afghanistan Withdrawal and Abbey GateEnding a twenty-year war was a decision within the president's authority and defensible on serious grounds.
- The 2003 Iraq War, the AUMF, and Faulty WMD IntelligenceThe 2003 Iraq War is the constitutional inverse of most modern executive-war questions: Congress did authorize it.