Berkeley City Council Doing Its Anti-Democracy Bit

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Either the defeated country is absorbed or they get to have a standard army back immediately following surrender.

Just checking, is that in the Constitution?

No, the Constitution just says the only valid use of the U.S. military is for defending America. That doesn't mean defending defeated enemies. That doesn't mean starting unprovoked wars like the one in Iraq. It doesn't mean provoking others into war either. It doesn't include anything other than defending America.

America was created to escape the tyranny of imperialism, not to practice it. This means the option of absorbing other nations into an empire is out. Therefore the only valid option for a DEFENSIVE military is to leave the defeated country and let them figure out how to defend themselves after we're gone.

Actually, unless another country attacks ours and then retreats home, our army should never fight any wars outside the borders of America and we should never have any military bases outside of our own borders unless such an extremely unlikely event actually occurs.