In 1945, Senator Arthur Vandenberg coined his historic post-WWII maxim, "All politics end at the water's edge." According to Vandenberg, as well as general consensus at the time, all partisan politics should cease when our country is engaged in a foreign military conflict. All politicians should unite in solidarity, not only in unanimous support of our troops, but also to present a united front to our foes and to the world. Since Vandenberg made his famous quote, our country has been involved in six major military conflicts－the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War on Terror, the War in Afghanistan, and the War in Iraq. In addition, between 1991 and 2022 alone, we've been involved in 251 military interventions, such as President Barack Obama's 2011 military intervention in Libya, in which 26,500 sorties were flown and 7,000 bombings took place over a period of eight months. Now, in none of these major military conflicts or interventions has Congress declared war; in fact, the last time Congress declared war was in 1942, during WWII, when war was declared on Romania. 

In 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Act, which was an attempt to check the power of presidents to commit troops to foreign conflicts without congressional approval. It requires a president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops and mandates their withdrawal within 60–90 days, unless Congress authorizes the continuing use of force or goes ahead and declares war. Under the War Powers Act, Democrat presidents, with the support of their political party, have repeatedly engaged our military in foreign conflicts. For instance, President Bill Clinton, with the blessing of his fellow Democrats, bombed both Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as ordered cruise missile strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan. President Barack Obama, with a rubber stamp from Nancy Pelosi and a Democrat controlled Congress, not only dropped bombs on Libya for eight months, but also bombed Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. And even cognitively impaired Joe Biden, with Democrat approval, aided Ukraine in its war with Russia and conducted airstrikes in the Middle East, against Iranian-backed militias in Syria and Iraq, as well as against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Despite all of the above, today's Democrats, for whom partisan politics never end, neither at the water's edge nor anywhere else, neither over war nor anything else, are demanding an immediate vote on a War Powers Resolution to bring an immediate cessation to our five-day-old military operations in Iran. After having waved an olive branch at Iran's mad mullahs for years, by sending them billions of American taxpayer dollars during the presidencies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, with which the mad mullahs funded worldwide terrorism and stained their hands with the blood of thousands and thousands of innocent victims, including hundreds of Americans, Democrats are now demanding that the bombing of the mad mullahs cease and desist, so that the olive branch can be picked back up and waved once again at the mad mullahs in their continuing mad dash toward a nuclear weapon. I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned, Democrats pose a far greater threat to the future of our nation than any of our foreign foes, and that even includes the mad mullahs of Iran, whose enablers are Democrats, partisan politicians who comprise a present-day political party that has certainly gone off the deep end and no longer cares at all about the water's edge.