US Conducts Raid Inside Syria

[halogamer1989]

akuma587 said:

halogamer1989 said:

They have and yes I am cool with it if they are tracking criminals or possibly terrorists per DHS protocols.  In regard to sovereignty, the UN has no mandate over the US except for peace talks which are pointless diplomatic bickering acts and w/o the US it would fall apart.

Just because they don't have any mandate over us doesn't mean we SHOULD DO IT.  Just because we are an essential part of the UN doesn't give us justification to do what we want.

That's like saying the President can violate the Constitution because the country would fall apart without him.

 

And the consequences of not committing to an action when a threat is present and the country with that threat neither has the will and/capabilty to take out their enemies are terrible to contemplate if we just stand by.  We would get blamed for being isolationist and not helping weaker nations if we stood by.  It is a damned iudo, damned iudon't scenario in military scenarios.