The Philstar reports that A fourth grade girl from Pinay wrote our next president a letter and got a response. The girl’s letter recommended which dog the Obamas should get when they move into the White House, and it made some suggestions as to what Barack Obama should do as President. Karina said in her letter:
Would it be possible for you to make a law that requires everyone to recycle… And would it be possible to ban unnecessary wars?
I don’t know about the recycling, but the second one sounds like a fantastic idea. The good news is that unnecessary wars are already banned! Or at the very least they are severely impeded by the Constitutional barriers to starting a war. According to the Constitution, the decision of whether or not to go to war is up to Congress. The bad news, of course, is that no President since FDR has followed this Constitutional format in going to war. The last declared war the United States has participated in was World War II. All of the armed conflicts since then, all the meddling in the Middle East, all the US-sponsored terrorism in Latin America and the bombing of helpless third-world countries, have been 100% illegal and unconstitutional.
So half of Obama’s job is done already. It’s unlawful for him to throw the military around without the consent and direction of Congress. All he will have to do once he becomes President is obey the law.
