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You can not teach at West Point, without prejudice to the objective that the U.S. military, embodied in the word "Pentagon", which is the application of unilateral foreign policy of the presidency, whether good or bad.

I think the columnist David Hoagland done correctly before writing their blunt comments about General David Petraeus, the Princeton political savvy promoter of the war. However, all generals, soldiers and professionals, are keen of war. That's what keeps them and their warriors in the business. Mentors Petraeus while in the Military Academy of the United States, he learned that his duty to President, Cesar, was in fact equivalent to rights of another. And that his honor was in charge of his duty. However, I find no mention of duty as president sworn in for a Newly appointed student at West Point, but the duty only to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Duty, honor and country are the three words that convey the same meaning today as the cry of fever legions of Julius Caesar of Rome, and we're going to die salute you, Caesar, "pierced the air during the Punic Wars. Petraeus and others like him have learned that the Harvard expert, Samuel P. Huntington wrote that the doctrine of neoconservatism, which the army is the sword of Prometheus, or perhaps of Damocles implementing the political will of the executive government.

Currently, a position Bush has the power of a Caesar, and May, by the stroke of a pen, create laws. I remember a child star of the 17th century essayist Montaigne, force that wrote, "When the legislative, executive and judicial power rests with one person, a dictatorship has been effected.Â" The American army was in essence, originally under the control of Congress, or legislature, as described in Section I of the Constitution SU. Nowhere in Article II, shall the president absolute authority to create law through the drafting of decrees, or the luxury option of adding signing statements to laws passed by Congress. No, the president and the executive branch, are by James Madison in Federalist # 14, more precisely, limited by the Constitution and human reason. Why, in his view, is that so?

In 1789, the editors during the Constitutional Convention, poignantly reflects a forerunner of the Revolutionary War led to out recently against a tyrant King George III. These wise Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution to prevent a tyrant rises again as U.S. president. Thata That is why Article I, Section 8 only Congress has the power to declare war and make rules governing the movement of ground and naval forces. All what is in the power of a president since 1945 has been by tradition and by the refusal of Congress to exercise its constitutional authority. The gradual politicization of the Supreme Court United States, saying, constitutional decrees, AA also contributed to the demise of Congress based on the powers which the legislature.

As the dominant power imperial world, the United States is repeating the same fatal errors in the past by the imperial Roman Empire, with a small majority approval the uninformed American electorate. And the arrogance of the now reigning King George and his loyal supporters in the Pentagon, as David Petraeus, has once again led States U.S. in the war and totally unnecessary slaughter in Iraq, which is just another Vietnam.

Norton R. Nowlin took M.A. and B.A. degrees in the social and behavioral sciences from the Uiversity orf Texas at Tyler, studied law for one full year at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, in San Diego, California, and earned an ABA-approved advanced paralegal certification from Edmonds Community College, in Lynnwood, Washington. Mr. Nowlin as attended LaJolla, California’s National University and Malibu’s Pepperdine University to attain graduate credits in business management and economics. Mr. Nowlin also attained a Texas State Teaching Certification, in social studies and psychology, from the University of Texas at Tyler. A paralegal, published essayist, poet, and free-lance fiction writer, Mr. Nowlin resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, the renown math tutor, Diane C. Nowlin, and their two very intelligent cats.

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