“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse …"
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy [1]
Per the War Powers Resolution (Act), these are the reasons why the US Congress should approve further military intervention in Iran:
- To permanently prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and other chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction, and the materials and means to produce such weapons.
- To permanently prevent Iran from having ballistic missiles or other delivery systems that can be used to attack other nations.
- To permanently prevent Iran from claiming sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and from restricting in any way the passage of shipping through the Strait.
- To permanently prevent Iran from supporting terrorist groups worldwide, and from using terrorist groups as proxies to attack other nations.
- To permanently prevent the current government of Iran from oppressing the Iranian people. To require Iran to hold free, fair, and internationally supervised elections to be held within six months that will allow the Iranian people to freely and peacefully choose a representative government and provide for free and fair elections to be held at regular intervals thereafter.
- To permanently require Iran to formally recognize Isreal as a nation, and to declare Israel’s right to exist.
- To permanently require Iran to stop persecuting religious, ethnic, and political minorities. To establish that no reparations for war damage are owed to Iran. To use the frozen Iranian funds to partially reimburse the Unites States for the cost of our recent military actions. To require Iran to pay reparations to their neighbors, including Israel, for the war damage caused by their missile and drone attacks and the economic hardship caused by their closing of the Strait of Hormuz.
If Iran refuses
to agree to these terms, then Congress must authorize the use of military force
necessary to affect the government of Iran’s unconditional surrender. Congress must end its interference with the
conduct of this conflict and give President Trump the tools he needs to
resolve this matter in our favor. The
government of Iran must no longer be allowed to threaten the peace and safety
of people throughout the world.
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