Mr Trump vetoes a bill that might have forced him to end America's support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen
founding fathers to return, suggested Michael Beschloss, a historian, in “Presidents of War”, they would be “thunderstruck” to discover how the power to kick off major wars could now rest on the whim of a president. Presidents have “regularly told Congress to go to hell” on such matters, as Harry Truman admiringly noted of James Polk, the 11th president. Donald Trump is keeping up that tradition.
The most inventive approach has been to pretend that, contrary to appearances, there is in fact no war. In 2011 Mr Obama said he was free to bomb Libya because the action was led by, did not involve “sustained fighting or active exchanges of fire” and was unlikely to escalate—and so did not meet the definition of “hostilities” envisaged by the War Powers Resolution. Mr Trump has put forward much the same argument for his own entanglement in Yemen .
Lawmakers are right to roll their eyes at such make-believe. After all, American commanders sit in an operations room in Riyadh next to their Saudi counterparts. American engineers service the Saudi warplanes. Until recently American planes refuelled the Saudi bombers mid-flight too. War at arm’s length is still war.’s World Food Programme. Congress, though exasperated, does not have the numbers to override Mr Trump’s veto.
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