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Maybe Congress has tools to rein in our willful President other than reducing war funding. Since we no longer have a draft, manpower is limited. But Congress should prohibit sending National Guard or Reserve units overseas. Another approach would be to reduce the size of the armed forces and prohibit the retention of personnel beyond the term of enlistment...
...Assert your Commander-in-Chief authority. In prime time, Bush put more of an onus on Iraqi officials to secure their country while announcing a hike in U.S. troop strength and contending that the U.S. cannot afford to fail. House and Senate Democrats put forward plans to rein him in through the pressure of a bipartisan resolution and harsh scrutiny of the budget request for what they called an "escalation." However, White House officials say the President will not be deterred. They know that Democrats will not cut off funds if doing so could hurt troops, and the Democrats admit...
...North Korea, long a Chinese ally, with whom China once fought a war against the U.S. As North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il developed a nuclear-weapons program in the 1990s, China had to choose between irking the U.S.--which would have implied doing little to rein in Pyongyang--or stiffing its former prot...
...view, nothing at all, as long as China's rise remains peaceful, with China neither provoking others to rein in its power nor slipping into outward aggression. And yet as remote as a confrontation seems today, there are some China watchers who fear a conflict with the West could still materialize in coming years. They point to two factors: the modernization of China's defense forces and the risk of war over Taiwan. The authoritative Military Balance, published annually by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, estimates that China's military spending has increased nearly...
...when it comes to actually taking any action to check Bush's war powers, there's not much bite to the Democrats' bark. Which raises the question: will Democrats use their new power to rein in what they say is an overreaching President? Or will they choose to continue what proved to be a successful political strategy when they were in the minority: criticizing the Administration for unpopular policies while avoiding taking action themselves that could prove equally unpopular...