, then do n't vote for me when I run for president . Yes , Clinton supporters rely on a childish and dangerous form of moral relativism , blissfully ignoring the irony that on each topic , their candidate is worse than the morally relative comparison . But Sanders supported the F-35 !
And then there ’s the expansion of power in the foreign and military arenas . During the Cold War , presidents were given broad powers that included unilateral authority over the CIA , which was behind coups in countries like Iran , Guatemala , the Congo , Dominican Republic , South Vietnam , and Chile . Presidents have also led the U.S. into many warsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle– every one since World War II , in fact – without having an official declaration of war from Congress , although Congress did formally authorize some of them . POSNER : The president has always had quite extensive war powers . Even before World War II , presidents would send troops off to do things without congressional authority , although they were usually relatively minor sorts of things .
Article 5 , the provision in the NATO treaty that provides for collective self - defense , is n’t binding on America in the way the US Constitution is . Instead , Article 5 works by credible commitment : If the United States signals that it is fundamentally committed to the NATO treaty , then it sends a signal to Russia and other hostile powers that the US will abide by the term of its agreements . This deters them from launching warsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleor any other kind of military adventurism in an American - aligned state . This is most relevant in the Baltic NATO states : Estonia , Latvia , and Lithuania . These countries were former Soviet republics , and Putin seemingly believes they still ought to be Russian possessions .
Gabbard , an Army soldier and veteran , called her decision “ incredibly personal and it ’s incredibly important because I think this is the most important job of a president is to be our commander in chief . ” “ There ’s a very clear contrast and clear difference when it comes to our two Democratic candidates and who will exercise good judgment , who will stop us from continuing these interventionist regime change wars that we ’ve seen in Iraq and Libya and now in Syria that have cost our country so much in terms of American lives , trillions and trillions of dollars , what to speak of the hundreds of thousands of lives in the Middle East that have been lost to this and the impact on our economy here at home , ” Gabbard said , roughly four weeks until her state votes in its primary , to Politico . “ Bernie Sanders is that candidate who will not take us , service members and our country , into these interventionist warsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleand Hillary Clinton , through her record , has proven that she will continue that and that ’s what ’s important to me and I think it ’s important for our voters to know before they go and head to the pollstomorrow and into the coming weeks . ” Gabbard and DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz clashed over the party ’s debate schedule last October , with the Hawaii Democrat saying last year that she was disinvited from the party ’s first debate for demanding more of them . Wasserman Schultz blasted Gabbard ’s complaints at the time , affirming that she would have been a distraction to the Las Vegas debate .