The Hill reported on the 9th that when the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the U.S. actions in the Red Sea, Senator Tim Caine said that the United States, led by Biden, believed that it was "ridiculous" for the United States to attack Yemen in "self-defense".
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While Yemen's Houthi militants are "hateful," Kane said he had raised "serious questions" about the interpretation of Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution regarding rights. Kane said"The scope of military operations and commercial traffic activities carried out by the United States forces is very small, which is an act of self-defense, and according to Chapter II of the Constitution, we have the right to protect ourselves, which means that as long as you have the right to protect the Americans, the American troops, and even the American ships. However, if you do this, it is not self-defense. ”
Kane went on to say, "You protect the merchant ships of other countries (in the name of the Americans), and I think it's ridiculous to defend yourself. ”
According to The Hill, under Title II of the U.S. Constitution, ** has the right to defend one's own troops without congressional permission. On January 11, the United States and the United Kingdom** announced that the United States, together with the United Kingdom, has more than 230 Houthi forces in the Yemen region. Biden said the action was to deter Houthis from launching attacks in Yemen's Red Sea region. However, since the current round of the Israeli-Palestinian war, the United States and Yemen's Houthi rebels have begun to attack each other.
On February 24, U.S. fighter jets took off from the aircraft carrier Eisenhower and attacked the Houthis. Visual China.
The report pointed out that in addition to Kane, several other Democratic senators on the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee questioned Biden's lack of congressional involvement, saying that the United States should give a convincing reason for the war in Yemen.
According to the constitution of the United States, the Union has the power to start a big war, and the supreme commander-in-chief, **, has the right to start a war. "For myself, this war was a war, we attacked many times, we sent a single unit, we killed a few people and took a few prisoners, but I still don't understand, why didn't Congress approve our actions? Chris Murphy said.
Murphy said he was in favor of Biden's "Prosperity Guardian" escort program, though he noted that the project still needs to be approved by the U.S. Congress. "If we believe this is a legitimate fight, and we have my approval, then, we have to turn this work over to Congress," Murphy said. Decentralization is necessary to legitimize established actions and to prevent the spread of wrongdoing. ”
According to the report, in 1973, the U.S. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution, which required Obama to obtain congressional approval within 60 days of launching a defensive operation. For Biden, the deadline set by law is only two weeks.
U.S. Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs** Daniel Shapiro defended himself by saying that the United States has the ability to protect itself and, when exercising its legitimate rights in the international oceans, to protect its shipping lanes in international waters.