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PRESIDENTIAL PREROGATIVE UNDER THECONSTITUTION TO DEPLOY U.S. MILITARYFORCES IN LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT
The dividing line between a state of war and a state of peacehas never been clear. Between the two concepts lies the realm ofthe small war, or in present-day vernacular, the low-intensity con-flict (LIC).2 Historically, U.S. military forces have been deployedaround the world under circumstances that can be classified asLIC.3 The President has often used military forces for missions that cannot be clearly labeled as war; under such circumstances,military forces have been deployed due to some intrinsic or uniquecapability, availability, or convenience in order to further U.S.foreign policy.4With the demise of the Soviet Union and thus of the likeli-hood of a high-intensity conflict between conventional forces, theLIC has come to the forefront of instances in which U.S. militaryforces will be used as instruments of U.S. foreign policy. LIC willbe seen no longer as primarily a Cold War tactic used to limitSoviet expansionism in the Third World, but rather as a separateapproach to implementing foreign relations. As such, LIC can beused to stabilize the international order and enhance the economicand national security of the United States. Recent U.S. militaryinvolvement abroad has underscored the importance of LIC inforeign affairs.The purpose of this Note is to examine the President's consti-tutional authority to deploy military elements into hostile or po-tentially hostile situations in order to further U.S. economic, diplo-matic, or security interests without infringing on congressionalpowers. This Note analyzes the constitutional separation of powersas it pertains to LIC and attempts to reconcile the original intentof the Framers with the historical and customary use of militarypower by the President in light of the contemporary global threat environment.
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3277&context=dlj>>9443202
What a long, strange trip it has been. It has not been for naught. Thank you for keeping us even-keeled through the chop.
Soros & Iran's mullahs join force
This tweet by Eli Clifton, RTd by Trita Parsi, is nothing but an attempt to score a cheap political point against US President Donald Trump. Clifton & Parsi are both members of the Quincy Ins., a pro-#Iran lobby group funded by George Soros.
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1268068212899545088
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/06/30/soros-and-koch-brothers-team-end-forever-war-policy/WhyENwjhG0vfo9Um6Zl0JO/story.html
Thread:
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1145388533160525824
Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies
Irene Triplett collected $73.13 from Department of Veterans Affairs, benefit for her father’s military service in Civil War
Irene Triplett, the last person receiving a pension from the U.S. Civil War, has died at the age of 90.
Ms. Triplett’s father, Mose Triplett, started fighting in the war for the Confederacy, but defected to the North in 1863. That decision earned his daughter Irene, the product of a late-in-life marriage to a woman almost 50 years his junior, a pension of $73.13 a month from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ms. Triplett, who suffered from mental disabilities, qualified for federal financial support as a helpless adult child of a veteran. She died Sunday from complications following surgery for injuries from a fall, according to the Wilkesboro, N.C., nursing home where she lived. Pvt. Triplett enlisted in the 53rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment in May 1862, then transferred to the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment early the following year, according to Confederate records. He fell ill as his regiment marched north toward Gettysburg and remained behind in a Virginia military hospital.
He ran away from the hospital, records show, while his unit suffered devastating losses at Gettysburg. Of the 800 men in the 26th North Carolina, 734 were killed, wounded or captured in the battle Pvt. Triplett missed.
Now a deserter, he made his way to Tennessee and, in 1864, enlisted in a Union regiment, the 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry. Known as Kirk’s Raiders, the 3rd North Carolina carried out a campaign of sabotage against Confederate targets in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. The unit was named after Tennessee-born commander Col. George Washington Kirk. After the war, former Kirk’s Raiders were despised in areas of the former Confederacy. Pvt. Triplett, by then a civilian with a reputation for orneriness, kept pet rattlesnakes at his home near Elk Creek, N.C. He often sat on his front porch with a pistol on his lap.
Pvt. Triplett married Elida Hall in 1924. She was 34 when Irene was born in 1930; he was 83. Such an age difference wasn’t rare, especially later, during the Great Depression, when Civil War veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care. Both mother and daughter suffered from mental disabilities. Irene Triplett recalled a tough childhood in the North Carolina mountains, beaten by teachers at school and parents at home.
“I didn’t care for neither one of them, to tell you the truth about it,” she told the Journal in 2014. “I wanted to get away from both of them. I wanted to get me a house and crawl in it all by myself.”
Pvt. Triplett died in 1938 at age 92, days after attending a reunion of Civil War veterans, attended by President Franklin Roosevelt, on the fields of Gettysburg.
Ms. Triplett and her mother lived for years in the Wilkes County poorhouse. Irene later moved through a number of care homes, her costs covered by Medicaid and her tiny VA pension.
She saw little of her relatives. But a pair of Civil War buffs visited and sent her money to spend on Dr Pepper and chewing tobacco, a habit she picked up in the first grade.
“She’s a part of history,” said Dennis St. Andrew, one of Irene’s supporters and a past commander of the North Carolina Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. “You’re talking to somebody whose father was in the Civil War, which is mind-bending.”
The number of what the group calls true sons and daughters of Civil War soldiers is fast heading toward zero. Mr. St. Andrew expects that as word spreads of Ms. Triplett’s death, the Sons of Union Veterans will, as is customary, declare a 30-day mourning period. Members will wear a black band on their membership badges.
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>You have destroied the thing you was trying to save with this. This is bad