Heh:
[O]ur current situation–with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can’t keep track of them all and with wars initiated essentially on presidential whim–would have horrified the Framers.
Ye Professor, during Clinton the Conqueror’s military campaigns.
It gets better. When confronted with his past comment, which apparently became inoperative once Bush took office, Reynolds says:
Er, except that war on Al Qaeda, and the invasion of Iraq, were explicitly authorized by Congress, in declarations of war and everything. After, you know, an actual attack on the United States.
Funny, I must have missed that Congressional “declaration of war” against Al Qaeda and Iraq. At any rate, how does that refute his earlier admonition against “so many foreign troop deployments”? Would the framers be any less “horrified” about the global deployment of troops in 2006 than they would have been in 1999? Have we been repatriating lots of troops over the past seven years?