Pat Oliphant for May 02, 2012
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Ronald Johnson
How is it that a President who is in office for a term of 4 years, and if re-elected when he makes a promise to another country, in absence of a Treaty approved by the Senate, can promise that nation the U.S. will maintain a military and diplomatic presence in that country for another 10,20, or 30 or more years like President Obama did to Afghanistan ? Especially, after we demanded the Soviets leave Afghanistan for precisely the same reasons ! Also, why do we have “permanent bases” in countries like Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, and offering to build more in other countries. Doesn’t our Constitution forbid such? Our First President General George Washington gave a Farewell Address to the first American Army and warned against getting mixed up permanently in “entangling alliances” and treaty alliances and arrangements that would get us involved in future military conflicts to “save our treaty partners”. What would have happened in 1939, if we along with Great Britain and France, had a Treaty with Poland ?