http://bobmarshall2012.com/issues/war-and-foreign-policy
Only the US Congress is authorized to declare war.* It is unconstitutional for Congress to delegate that power to the President. Therefore Representatives and Senators have the grave moral responsibility to prudently evaluate the factual conditions for the moral legitimacy necessary to declare war.* War can morally be waged under the following conditions known as the “just war” doctrine:
The damage inflicted by the aggressor must be lasting, grave and certain;
All other means of ending the conflict failed or were impractical or ineffective;
There must be serious prospects for success;
The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil sought to be eliminated.
The first goal of American foreign and military policy should be to reduce occasions of conflict between America and other nations.
The first goal of American foreign and military policy should be to reduce occasions of conflict between America and other nations.
Protecting our citizens from foreign aggressors is the main function of the federal government.* Federal, state and local authorities must work together to deter piracy and minimize the risk of attack.* Reliable human intelligence sources in foreign countries are still the primary means of detecting foreign threats. Machines and technology are supplements to national defense and self-determination, not substitutes for it.
Whatever the difficulty, incinerating Washington or holding the nation nuclear hostage is made easier by the Obama Administration’s diversion of the military’s time, money, training and manpower to facilitate widespread cultural acceptance of homosexual behavior such as the first public lesbian-to-lesbian public “kiss” on a Virginia Beach, Virginia pier for a Navy ship’s docking on December 21, 2012.
How can turning the US Military into a vast sociological experiment promoting health compromising, life-shortening behavior rejected by General of the Continental Army George Washington be compatible with the needs of military discipline? How does rejecting 6,000 years of moral teaching of Western religions increase the security of America?
We have the further problem that American technology and equipment manufacturers, funded by the US taxpayer, have aided foreign nation’s efforts to weaken American military strength. These practices have run from the founding of the Soviet Communist government in Russia, to foreign counterparts of American businesses in Nazi Germany, through the Clinton Administration’s approval of the export of computer and other equipment enabling the Red Chinese to equip ICBM’s with multiple warheads that can be aimed at the United States including radiation hardened computer chips necessary to conduct nuclear war.
From our alliance with France in America’s Revolutionary War in 1788 to our 1949 entrance into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United States followed George Washington’s advice to avoid permanent entangling military alliances with foreign powers.* Now, we have treaties to defend approximately 60 countries on five continents some of which were made 50 or more years ago.
President Ronald Reagan’s Ambassador to the UN, the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick, said that we must reexamine the reasons for alliances we now have, and stop spending American money and deploying American manpower to protect affluent and militarily capable nations that are able to defend themselves. I agree with her.
