The U.S. Congress has power over two very important things: money and information. It can, in theory, and practice, end a war by refusing to fund it. It can — and has — compelled the leading architects of American foreign policy — CIA directors, national security advisors, secretaries of defense — to answer for their uses and abuses of executive
为什么我们需要一个关心外交政策的大会
这需要时间,但国会采取行动越南。今天,只有极少数立法人员敢于谈论我们在阿富汗的长期参与情况,尽管国会收到大量的 – 而且往往令人震惊的 – 关于战争进展的季度报告。