.@emptywheel I agree with war powers issue, but what is happening in Libya has nothing to do with war powers debate. Cheapens your argument.
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@sharon_lynch I'm suggesting notion that going small w/o AUMF is not the panacea for intervention Obama treated it as in Libya. -
@emptywheel that i agree with, but situation in libya has nothing to do w/ obama circumventing congress. als bush had AUMF for iraq and .... -
@sharon_lynch Don't know if that's true. Did our intervention help or hurt? Did it lead to escalation in Syria? Was that tied to HOW we did? -
@emptywheel DDR programs should have been more robust. -
@sharon_lynch Based on? -
@emptywheel based on the fact that the country is still awash with weapons and there is a civil war brewing in tripoli and extremists have -
@sharon_lynch And how would DDR have changed that? Specifically involving us?
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@emptywheel yeeeeeeeuuuup. 1) air strikes to avert imminent humanitarian catastrophe 2) mission expands to support local ground forces 3) ? -
@OKnox No no. It's different this time. We managed the regime change at the beginning, and w/o bayonet impalement. So surely it'll work out. -
@emptywheel I know you're partly snarking but I'm not sold on notion Abadi = "our guy." -
@OKnox Regime change is not about our guy (or at least not in this incompetent stage of US fopo). It's abt DOING SOMETHING. -
@emptywheel Where's Andrew Shue when you need him? ("I'm so old I remember Andrew Shue's 'Do Something' Foundation")
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@emptywheel they are two separate issues. obama circumventing congress does not equal an argument against intervention in general. -
@sharon_lynch No, but it entails a whole lot of things that follow on. Such as no support/money for DDR.
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