David French
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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And so now...
That doesn't mean that a president can't respond immediately when there is an attack on our forces or there's an emerging immediate situation that requires military force.
But even in those circumstances, the president is supposed to go to Congress immediately to get ratification and support of his actions.
And so this isn't just it's really important for people to realize this is not just some sort of like constitutional technicality.
it is actually very important to the ability of the United States to wage war and to wage war effectively.
Because if there's one thing that we know from history, it's that democracies that have achieved public support for a war are among the most powerful entities we've seen in the world.
Democracies that do not receive public support for a war can be very fragile and brittle in their pursuit of the war.
And so,
when you actually take the time to follow the constitutional process, as I said, that's not just dotting I's and crossing T's, it's part of the fundamental role of getting the people of the country to understand why they're supporting it,
why we're going to war, they're choosing to support it.
And that creates an enormous staying power in the conflict because every conflict or almost every conflict has periods and times of adversity.
And if you've actually rallied the people, you can endure that.
But as we've seen in this war,
We had no constitutional process, no public support for it, and so we really have very little patience for it at all.
So even if you thought it was wise to attack Iran, for example, the fact that we didn't do the constitutional process
undermines the entire war.
And if you don't believe it was wise to attack Iran, undermining the constitutional process has cut you completely out of the debate.
I mean, your voice doesn't really matter to the debate.
It didn't matter to the decision to go into war, and that's antithetical to the purposes of our democracy.
Yes and no.
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