The Defend the Guard Act is state-based legislation that would prevent the deployment of National Guard units overseas into foreign wars unless Congress has first officially declared war, as the Co…
President Donald Trump salutes as a U.S. Navy carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Scott A. Wirtz, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Wirtz, a civilian and former Navy SEAL from St. Louis, Mo., was killed Jan. 16, 2019, in a suicide bomb attack in Manbij, Syria.
My father’s childhood friend was deployed with the North Dakota National Guard when he was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2012. The North Dakota National Guard would not have been in Afghanistan if the Defend the Guard Act had been law in North Dakota and if states had insisted that Congress declare war first.
The American public has consistently favored withdrawal from our endless wars while their government in DC has prolonged them. For instance, the public has repeatedlyleaving Afghanistan when President Trump negotiated the original Doha agreement, but the Joe Biden Administration recklessly pushed the withdrawal date from May to the middle of “fighting season,” leading to predictable disaster.
posted on X, “I support state-level ‘Defend the Guard’ acts, which prohibit the deployment of the National Guard abroad without a formal declaration of war by Congress. It would put a limit on the military adventurism we take for granted today as normal.” In June, the Montana Republican Party became the sixth state GOP party to adopt Defend the Guard language in its platform. To this day, the bill has been championed in over thirty states by Republican and Democrat sponsors and cosponsors with the Libertarian Party National Committee’s endorsement and the help of many Libertarian Party state affiliates.
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