Re: Situating ourselves historically

From: Bill Barowy (wbarowy@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 07:51:28 PST


On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:00 am, Stephen Vassallo bid us discourse:

  Situated ourselves
> historically should also involve examining how and why certain articles
> were constructed and how and why they are being challenged,
> questioned, and maybe even trampled on today.

Yup. Agreed. Check out the reference below in some detail. The Oval office
has a *substantial history* of the use of force abroad. It cuts many ways --
while it can be claimed that the latest actions are nothing new, the U.S.
wears this history as a national identity, and on its citizens it may be done
so unknowingly, or perhaps with ponderous regret, aversion, or acceptance,
and, for others, in exploitation. The president as "the organ of foreign
relations" (p. 498 ) is the U.S. embodied, concentrated, and historically
formed. I think it is pretty scary.

gotta run.

bb

> Bill Barowy <wbarowy@attbi.com> said:
> > The Constitution with Annotations
> > Article II. Executive Department
> >
> > esp. "The Historic Use of Force Abroad"
> >
> > http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/art2.html



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