War Party's Atrocity Porn by William Norman Grigg

This is why the Founding Fathers, while understanding that just wars may need to be fought in defense of our liberty and national independence, sought to chain the dogs of war by vesting the war-declaring power in Congress, rather than the president. This isn’t a perfect solution; witness the fact that the Spanish-American War and U.S. involvement in World War I both followed constitutionally appropriate declarations of war by Congress. But the constitutional assignment of war powers is intended to make it difficult for our government to embroil our nation in unnecessary wars. But those constitutional mechanisms only work if sustained by an informed and morally serious electorate.