Washington intelligence, military, and foreign policy circles are abuzz today with speculation that the President, yesterday or in recent days, sent a secret Executive Order to the Secretary of Defense and to the Director of the CIA to launch military operations against Syria and Iran.Add to that the fact that today U.S. forces raided the Iranian Consulate in Arbil, Iraq.
The President may have started a new secret, informal war against Syria and Iran without the consent of Congress or any broad discussion with the country.
Forget for a minute the very important fact that 21,500 additional troops is nowhere near enough to fight the Iraqi insurgency AND Iran and Syria. But IF the President did issue a secret executive order of war against two additional countries without the consent of Congress, then we have a tremendous and true Constitutional crisis on our hands.
