This is John Batchelor.

Conversation with Katrina Vandenhovel, the editorial director and publisher of the Nation magazine,

about a debate that is not happening in the US Congress.

Four senators, two Republicans, and two Democrats have come forward to say,

these matters in the Middle East and in Europe, the Ukraine War, the Gaza War, the

hootheif firing, and now the death of American soldiers because of Iran-backed militias using drones.

All this requires contemplating where are we going.

In other words, the War Powers Act of 1973. The President can ask Congress to

debate this matter and give him a resolution to combat the troubles in the Middle East. Right now we're engaged in warfare

without power of Congress, without declaring war. All of that can be handled with a lengthy debate the American people would witness and

we'd learn a deal about where Congress is, where it's going.

Also, there's no reason to believe that the Congress would reject the request by the President

to make a formal that were at war with the Houthis, or there were a war with Iran-backed

militias in Syria and Iraq and along the Jordan border.

Here's Katrina Veninovil commenting on this matter.

That is a very good question because what we're witnessing here is not a

demand by Congress though I think there are few who have consistently sought

that route. You're looking for a debate, you're looking for a White House understanding the deference to Congress in this instance?

I think, you know, it's the Imperial presidency. I mean, Arthur Schles and and Junior wasn't the only historian of that

beast of that you know tied very clearly to a military industrial complex that has grown so

deeply. So I think it's something we've seen over the last decades.

There's been very little interest, courage, constitutionalism,

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