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Aircraft Carriers Headed in the Wrong Direction

Aircraft Carriers Headed in the Wrong Direction

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Darrell Castle discusses the deployment of a 3rd U.S. aircraft carrier as well as a 2nd marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East region. Transcription / Notes AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Due to technical difficulties this report is dated Monday, the 12th day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is war again as I will be discussing the deployment of a 3rd aircraft carrier as well as a 2nd marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East region. From the title you may deduce that my view is that the other two should be heading home rather than sending a 3rd to join them. Yes folks the USS Theodore Roosevelt has departed its home base of San Diego and is on its way to join the George HW Bush and the George Washington in the Middle East conflict zone. Sailing with the Ted as the sailors call the Roosevelt is the USS Makin Island which contains a 2nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MAU). The USS Boxer already on station contains a MAU which brings the total number of Marines to around 11,000 or that’s the number being reported. Since the war against Iran started President Trump has deployed about 120 strike aircraft to the region including F-35 stealth attack fighters, F-22 air superiority fighters along with old standbys the F-16 and F-15 Strike Eagles. These troops currently deployed will be joining the roughly 50,000 already there deployed on ships and on bases across the region. The U.S. maintains 19 bases in the Middle East with eight of them permanently located in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. I’m opposed to all this for many reasons as the title to this Castle Report indicates and one of the chief reasons is the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land does not permit it. That supreme law requires an incoming president to take an oath to it or to the law if you will. The oath is not to a country and certainly not to any person. No one is above it including the President. Let me share the very short oath the incoming president takes from Article II, Section 1, Clause 8. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Just 36 easy to understand words but if the Presidents obeyed that oath what a difference it would make. He’s not the only one violating the oath because virtually every elected official in the country takes a similar oath. When asked by the press if he thinks it’s necessary for him to obey the Constitution he usually refers the questioner to his team of brilliant lawyers who tell him he is legally OK or not. The founders wrote the words as they did to make the document readable and understandable by ordinary people so no team of lawyers is necessary to explain the oath to him or to tell him ways to avoid its words. It seems that he believes that he has the legal authority to take the nation to war without permission from congress or he just doesn’t care what congress thinks. The oath that government officials and military personnel take to the Constitution is what makes America, America. The document grants to Congress, not the President the power to declare war. In other words, before the U.S. military starts shooting and bombing, Congress, acting as the representatives of the people must give permission. This happened before when the U.S. went to war without approval by Congress in Vietnam. Finally, the war was so bad and so many were dying Congress decided to at least look at it. The War Powers Act was passed in 1973 and it said that in the absence of a Congressionally declared war within 48 hours the President must explain to Congress why he has gone to war without a formal declaration. When the war reaches 60 days he cannot continue the war without Congressional approval, and without that approval he must halt the war within 30 days. It appears to me that the President is outside even the requirements of the War Powers Act but still he continues the war. He tells us that it is necessary because Iran has or is developing a nuclear weapon and that is veery dangerous for the world and cannot be allowed to happen. He offers us no proof, no evidence, of the nuclear weapon and even his Director of National Intelligence disputed the claim but still the war continues. American leaders usually seem to think that because of our overwhelming power and technology the wars they start will be short and decisive and absent U.S. casualties. It never seems to work out that way and furthermore the nature of war has changed because of what has happened in Iran and Ukraine. Hypersonic missiles directed by satellite targeting data as well as armed swarms of drones have changed it. Now, those aircraft carriers must stand off at least 600 miles from their targets to give them a ...
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