“‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.”—Jeremiah 6:13–14
The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces.
War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises. They have fused.
Every modern president hasstretched the limits of war-making power. Some have shredded those limits altogether.
Each time that boundary is breached, the Constitution recedes a little further.
In a completeabout-facefrom his claims to being a peace president,Donald Trumphas authorized yet another preemptive strike—this time against Iran—without a declaration of war from Congress, without meaningful public debate, and without constitutional clarity.
With its Orwellian proclamations of “peace through strength,”Operation Epic Furyis less strategy than spectacle—an egotistical, muscle-flexing distraction by the Trump administration and an overarching attempt to normalize the use of unilateral force by the executive branch without congressional input or authorization.
This was never about peace. It was always about power.
And the Constitution is clear about how this is supposed to work, even if the White House is not.
Article I, Section 8 grants Congress—not the president—the power to declare war.The president under Article II, Section 2 is designated as commander-in-chief with the power to command the military. He is not commander-of-everything.
Source: Global Research
