Although the White House has insisted that President Biden has the legal authority to take military action against the Houthis, several members of Congress have refuted its claims. At a Senate hearing in February, several senators called attention to the War Powers Resolution, which establishes that the president cannot continue hostilities for longer than 60 days without approval from Congress.

Regardless, Congress has failed to act, even now that the deadline has passed. March 12, the day that the White House was required to cease its military operations, “came, and went, in public silence,” as the Associated Press reported.

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    Read the entire article twice and never once did they mention why they think fighting Houthi pirates is illegal.

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        That’s cool and all but the defacto Yemini government are acting like pirates and terrorists.

        Edit: fuck your downvotes, you people have your head up your ass, these pieces of shit are targeting civilians and their ships, that makes them terrorists, not freedom fighters, and absolutely not heroes.

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      1st, I don’t think it takes a person to know that what Israel’s mitliary is doing in Gaza that the U.S supports, quacks like a humanitarian crisis akin to genocide, regardless of whether you agree or not. The article indicates that

      It doesn’t take facts to know that these are bad optics, mon liberal ami…

      2nd, lemme tell you this… if the Saudis dealt with Yemenis and couldn’t bomb them out of existence and cause famine, why do you think an overstretched U.S army can deal with them?

      Can’t they finish their Ukraines and Israels before Yemen?

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        I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the U.S. military is so formidable, it can fight three simultaneous full-blown Congressionally declared wars across the globe using only its carrier strike groups, and not even put a dent on its economy.

        I don’t know what could happen if they involved their Army or Air Force in a combined arms scenario.

        So to answer your question, dismally depressing the U.S. can indeed not need to finish its Ukraine and Israel and still fight everywhere because it’s not even formally declared war in either region with any faction and not even utilising a small fraction of its military might, economy or brainpower.

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            Their mission was to destroy Al-Qaida not Taliban, which they succeeded in, and then spent 19 years stabilizing the country.

            It’s not like they failed destroying Al-Qaida since you don’t hear about Osama and Al-Qaida anymore, only ISIS now.

            Taliban simply came in from Pakistan like cockroaches to occupy the power vacuum.