
Sarah Burns — Is American Foreign Policy Broken?
The Curious Task
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Do You Think Covert Ops Are a Necessity in Foreign Policy?
The executive branch has the capacity to act quickly and secrecy. It's a lot easier to keep secrets in the executive branch than it is in a house of, or two houses of, you know, 535 people,. Right? So that allowed the executive to say, don't worry about these covert ops, congress. I've got it handled. You know. They're not going to push the button. And they're certainly avoiding any one terming all this action, no matter what it is, in any serious way, i quote, war and official conflict - right? This is always never, as you were saying before, ever officially declared as military action. It's just either covert
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