Sentences with phrase «case for military action»

She chaired the all - party parliamentary group for Friends of Syria, and was vocal in making the case for military action in the country last autumn, on humanitarian grounds.

He admitted that the case for military action in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11 had been much clearer than that for Iraq.

I will be making the case for military action in Syria as part of a wider strategy, ahead of a vote in the House of Commons today.

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With oil, aluminum and other materials making multiyear highs because of Russian sanctions and military action in Syria, Goldman Sachs recently issued a bullish statement, writing that «the strategic case for owning commodities has rarely been stronger.»

Courts are utterly unqualified to determine proper diplomatic or military actions to take, or to evaluate whether the President's actions were enough to meet the requirement of «do what's necessary to restore security;» foreign policy is a case where a country needs a unified face (because other countries aren't particularly willing to deal with US internal politics), and where the courts could easily screw up what the government is doing; and whether to send Americans to war is a question that is clearly a matter for those accountable to the people.