Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams requested permission to address a joint session of Congress. Such a request is unheard of in modern times. What was on his mind? … Adams was worried that the cancer of war was spreading yet again throughout the Washington establishment, and he wanted to squelch it. He did so successfully with his argument that offensive foreign wars don’t spread liberty; they spread violence. Fast forward to 1992, when the U.S. was waging another fruitless foreign war, this one using the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Administration – to avoid the statutes that require reporting military conflicts to Congress and the need of a congressional declaration of war. This was the drug war the U.S. was waging against the Mexican government and Mexican civilians.” (07/11/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/07/10/searching-for-monsters-3/