I note that international law appears nowhere in that list.If we are going to put America's blood and treasure at risk, it must always be with a clear vision of:
1. A critical and vital national interest or American lives are at risk.
2. Congress declares war.
3. We send in the troops, no holds barred, no punches pulled, and with overwhelming force, take care of the problem.
4. And then we leave.
I don’t think anything in the middle east is worth a drop of American blood but if we’re going to do it...the above should be the hurdles that have to be cleared.
An absence I have noted in almost all American discussion about the unprovoked attacks on Iran.