Will Barr on Rand Paul’s ‘Only Congress Can Declare War:’ This Debate Has Been Going on for the ‘Whole Life of the Republic’

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BARR: "This debate has been going on for the whole life of the republic. One thing is very clear the framers understood that declaring war had it a special term of honor. In those days to create a special state. What they said is to declare war it was well understood is going to be occasions where the United States willunitedwill take actio itself against activities of foreign enemies. That did not require either a declaration of war or the approval of Congress. And in fact historically going back to the first seminole or more Andrew Jackson went down on a punitive expedition into Spanish flora Florida the boxer rebellion, there are scores and scores of situations where the United States had to use force as a pragmatic matter, what it’s come down to is this scale, the scale and need for secrecy but if you are going and on a targeted operation to protect the interests of the United States, which this is to build a particular problem of not launching a full-scale war the dimensions of a major war. That is not something that causes a declaration of war. This is a law enforcement operation. This kind of operation requires strict secrecy to succeed. The idea of going in and having it debated in Congress is ludicrous."