re: #171 lawhawk

It’s to prevent the military from ever operating effectively in the future. It would be a firebreak against a President using his CinC powers to use the military (even though Bush had the AUMF for Iraq and Afghanistan by overwhelming bipartisan support - more bipartisan support than can be found on the porkfest now getting approved by the Democrats in Congress).

Another possibility is that they see the military as a jobs program - getting people out of the job market for a length of time. Watch for that argument to take on new life with the recession continuing.

Paragraph 1 is over my head — I don’t see the logic.

Paragraph 2 — that makes a lot of sense.