Reply #48: sigh

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yes, I mean we've only done this for almost every military intervention since 1973 considering we have not declared war once since then and yet we've done countless interventions and each time Congress has not once protested but you didn't get our permission first, but yes clearly my position "doesn't make any sense."

Folks down below have laid out several ways this could fit under either 2 or 3.

An attack on Poland assuming you are trying to give me an extreme example (President Asshole bombs Poland just for the hell of it) would not fit under any of those authorizations or any broad interpretation of those authorizations such as an expansive view of the requirements of treaties/statutes dealing with NATO et al or an expansive view of what section 3 is to include any threat to national security.

Again, point me to where Congress has mandated approval BEFORE the introduction of troops. You can't.