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HE did this. Regardless of French, English, Italian or other maneuvering and pant-leg tugging, HE did it. He has full ownership of what befalls that country.
This should not even be an issue to bring up in sentient society: we have inserted ourselves into this, and we may claim all we may--and will undoubtedly get traction for it--that we saved lives, but all the very real lives that are taken from this point on are on our hands. Any economic or political fallout in the region or world at large can be attributed to it, fair or not. Any blowback of any kind not only rests on us, but it rests on our President, due to his not involving Congress legislatively, as he should have.
Obviously, he is hoping to get away with the violation of the War Powers Act, UN Participation Act and the UN Charter, and quite frankly, there are now much bigger issues at hand. That's an astonishing thing to ponder, but it's true.
What he must do right now is to get everyone in Congress to go on the record as "fer" or "agin" it, because if they're left to play the field, ANY mishaps are deadly to our party.
This isn't just a slight footnote in an upheaval, it's intervention in a raging civil war, and it's the turning of the page, the closing of the book, and the opening of a whole new volume of the affair. It is fully his. At this point it's a bit of a dice-throw with the expectations of the Provisional Government, but war is a very, very different thing than politics; it is not, as Clausewitz said, merely "Politics by other means", it is "for keeps" and of an intensity that doesn't even compare. Half-measures and qualified approaches are lethal to one's cause in war, and the modified--and ill-defined--rules of engagement are what militaries hate for a reason: they don't work well.
Admiral Jacky Fisher put it best: "The essence of war is violence, and moderation in war is imbecility." Now our President puts himself in a situation where he will have to take back many fine things he's said and either show himself to be very willing to sell one thing and do another, or follow the path that he seems to be following that is worse: cover up the real extent of the action.
What a mess. Any version of an outcome that isn't problematic would be one that happens quickly. That may well be possible, too, but it's hard to see from here.
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