This was a laying out of facts in the least dry history lesson you can get. The premise here being that the way wars or military operations are started now is not how the framers of our constitution intended. The bottom line being that one person should not wield that much power and that the legislative branch is to act a system of checks and balances in the President's ability to send out men and women in the military into combat.
What this book wasn't was a bashing of our military or a definitive statement against ever putting them into action.
Rachel Maddow writes the way she speaks on her show. She uses whit and sarcasm and a lot of well documented facts to lay out her points.
Very informative and very well done.
(Finished August 24, 2013)
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