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Constitutional Limits • Does the constitution allow the president to send humanitarian aid/Peace keeping aid without authorization from Congress? • Under the constitution, do you think the president has more authority to take military action or humanitarian action?
Statutory Authority • What does this statute allow - 10 U.S.C. §401. HUMANITARIAN AND CIVIC ASSISTANCE PROVIDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MILITARY OPERATIONS? • What does 10 U.S.C. §404. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE allow? • Does these limit the president or extend his power?
Protection or Provocation? • Which American citizens is the president protecting? • So, can the president hire Halliburton to deliver humanitarian aid, then send in troops to protect it? • Can the president also protect foreigners?
Somalia • What crisis brought the UN into Somalia in 1992? • What did UN Resolution 794 provide for Somalia? • What was the initial US military involvement? • Did Congress support this? • Why did we go into Mogadishu? • What did the White House Counsel's office say was the core of the president's power to do this? • Is this bootstrapping?
Battle of Mogadishu - October 1993 • Black Hawk Down - 1993 • What limits did Congress put in the appropriations bill after this? • What did the president do? • What was the impact of this on our response to the Rwandan Genocide - 1994?
Foreign Control of US Troops • What potential constitutional problem is posed by putting US troops under foreign control? • Can Congress constitutionally prevent the president from putting troops under foreign control, if it is otherwise allowed? • Does it matter whether the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan are characterized as humanitarian, rather than military?
What about Pakistan? • What is the threat? • How has the situation changed over the past 2 years? • Why are we so worried about Pakistan? • The bomb? • India? • Is Afghanistan really about Pakistan?