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Constitutional Limits
- Does the constitution allow the president to send humanitarian aid/Peace keeping aid without authorization from Congress?
- Under the constitution, do you think the president has more authority to take military action or humanitarian action?
Statutory Authority
- What does this statute allow - 10 U.S.C. §401. HUMANITARIAN AND CIVIC ASSISTANCE PROVIDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MILITARY OPERATIONS?
- What does 10 U.S.C. §404. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE allow?
- Does these limit the president or extend his power?
Protection or Provocation?
- Which American citizens is the president protecting?
- So, can the president hire Halliburton to deliver humanitarian aid, then send in troops to protect it?
- Can the president also protect foreigners?
Somalia
- What crisis brought the UN into Somalia in 1992?
- What did UN Resolution 794 provide for Somalia?
- What was the initial US military involvement?
- Did Congress support this?
- Why did we go into Mogadishu?
- What did the White House Counsel's office say was the core of the president's power to do this?
- Is this bootstrapping?
Battle of Mogadishu - October 1993
- Black Hawk Down - 1993
- What limits did Congress put in the appropriations bill after this?
- What did the president do?
- What was the impact of this on our response to the Rwandan Genocide - 1994?
Foreign Control of US Troops
- What potential constitutional problem is posed by putting US troops under foreign control?
- Can Congress constitutionally prevent the president from putting troops under foreign control, if it is otherwise allowed?
- Does it matter whether the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan are characterized as humanitarian, rather than military?
What about Pakistan?
- What is the threat?
- How has the situation changed over the past 2 years?
- Why are we so worried about Pakistan?
- The bomb?
- India?
- Is Afghanistan really about Pakistan?
