Are Republicans Really Concerned About the US Sovereignty?

If you are a conservative who is worth the name, no matter what your views on foreign policy are, there’s one thing that you don’t want: US troops under the command of a member of the world elite who is not a US citizen, and therefore not under the laws of the United States. To put it in another way, you are worried about the US sovereignty in a world of increasing attempts at building a one-world government. The US military must be US military, serving the American people through their representatives, not the goals of some socialist would-be dictator.

To give you an example, in 1999, during the war against Yugoslavia, Bill Clinton self-consciously placed the American contingent under the command of the then General Secretary of NATO, Javier Solana a man with plenty of tank driving experience. Solana is an avowed Marxist, former member of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (the name adopted by the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s). He is not as open about his Marxism these days but he is a very vociferous opponent of the concept of national sovereignty. You can see one of his recent articles against national sovereignty here. For the duration of the war, Solana was the man giving orders to General Wesley Clark, the commanding general of the American contingent in the Operation Allied Force. For several months, a significant part of the US military, armed with the latest-technology weaponry, strong enough to defeat a whole nation, was under the command of a Marxist, opponent of the concept of national sovereignty, and an open critic of the ideas upon which the US was founded. Who knows whose interests did the US military serve at the time.

Decent, moral people around the world are not eager to exercise power over other people, and even less so to give orders to the US military. It is only socialist power-mongers who are trigger-happy and would like to have the opportunity to have control over the most powerful war-machine the world has ever seen. That’s why it is so important to prevent the US military from being placed under the command of foreign potentates or powers or princes. It is not only illegal but it is also immoral to lend American power in service to proven criminals.

And conservatives should be worried about that.

Well, of course, they have their representatives in Congress who will make sure that never happens. I mean, their Republican representatives who are conservative, and who will make anything possible to ban placing American troops under foreign command. We can trust Republican representatives about that, can’t we?

It turns out we can’t.

Earlier this month a bill has been introduced and referred to several House Committees, which expressly prohibits the deployment of any unit or individual of the US Armed Forces, or element of the US intelligence community in support of a NATO military operation absent express prior statutory authorization from Congress for such deployment. It was introduced by Dennis Kucinich but is supported by three Republicans. Only three Republicans. The bill, if passed, will effectively bar any President, Democrat or Republican, from lending the US military in service of foreign powers for whatever reason there may be.

One would think that with all the talk among conservatives about US sovereignty and against one-world government, Republicans in Congress would be overwhelmingly in support of that bill. One would think that FOX News will at least mention it as a possible solution to Obama’s recent deployment of American troops without Congress’s approval. Or that conservative pundits will at least discuss it.

Nope. Republicans in Congress are silent about it. FOX News is silent about it. Pundits don’t even mention it.

Which should make you wonder: Were Republicans in Congress sincere when they criticized Obama for starting a war without the approval of Congress? And if they were, why the silence now?

There can be only one reason: There were not sincere. And they are planning on continuing Obama’s foreign policy in the future, just as he continued Bush’s foreign policy. Remember, It was Romney, the choice of the GOP corrupt establishment, who supported Obama in his policy that the President doesn’t need Congress to send the troops to war. Apparently, the rest of the GOP establishment is supporting Romney in his anti-Constitutional views. And they are preparing to continue violating the Constitution under a future Republican President. And such a law, which effectively bans the President from leasing out American troops, will be an obstacle to the war-mongering neocons in the Republican Party.

And what’s worse, the war-mongering neocons would be willing even to lend American troops to the enemies of America, just to continue with the unconstitutional wars.

Which brings us back to the reality that the GOP establishment is just as anti-American as the liberal Democrats, rhetoric notwithstanding.

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