Iran Strike Decision: Congress Must Debate Before War

‘President Trump,” reports NPR, “says he hasn’t decided whether he’ll launch a military strike on Iran.”

This is a remarkable sentence for a citizen of a free republic to read. All that elegant constitutional infrastructure, all that cluttered democratic input, and we’re sitting around waiting to see if he has decided whether he’ll launch a war with Iran. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, there are 100 members of the Senate, and yet the most sacred decision that a nation’s political leadership can take will come down to one man’s mood. We might wake up tomorrow and discover that the United States is engaged in Persia, and we might not. Who knows? Better hope the president sleeps well tonight.

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

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‘President Trump,” reports NPR, “says he hasn’t decided whether he’ll launch a military strike on Iran.”

This is a remarkable sentence for a citizen of a free republic to read. All that elegant constitutional infrastructure, all that cluttered democratic input, and we’re sitting around waiting to see if he has decided whether he’ll launch a war with Iran. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, there are 100 members of the Senate, and yet the most sacred decision that a nation’s political leadership can take will come down to one man’s mood. We might wake up tomorrow and discover that the United States is engaged in Persia, and we might not. Who knows? Better hope the president sleeps well tonight.