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From: al@aurora.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: To Hell With Diplomacy
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 21:04:50 EDT
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> >I say we stop killing people without a congressional declaration
> >of war as required by the Constitution.
> 
> That would make shelling Lebanon OK?

The point is that Reagan couldn't have got a declaration of war so
that there would have been no shelling.  A declaration of war is a
filter to prevent overuse of force.  If we obeyed our constition we'd
use force much less than we do today.