Obama: We Will Go To War For Other Nations’ Petty Territorial Disputes
War with China over some rocks.
How Quemoy/Matsu of him.
Eisenhower/Cold War.
Would he pause for an OK from Congress, or just jump in with the excuse that pacta sunt servanda?
Do we really agree, and would Congress really agree, that in such a case either (a) Obama would not need their OK to go to war on the side of Japan or (b) though Obama would need their OK the Congress would be legally or morally (or both) obliged to give it, to go to war on the side of Japan?
Leaving us to wonder, perhaps not for the first time, how and when treaties, under the US constitution, are to be repudiated.
And certainly not for the first time, I say there are many treaties obliging the US to go to war on behalf of others that for sure ought to be disobeyed far sooner than the US constitution.
Though if we must disobey the latter to disobey the former then, by all means, disobey!
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