To the editor:
Colin H. Kahl and Jon B. Wolfsthal’s warning of national security advisor John Bolton’s ambitions for war with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran is truly ominous, and their assessment of his power over President Trump is all too plausible.
War with Iran would be catastrophic. It’s all the more important for Congress to reassert its sole constitutional power to declare war and bar Trump from attacking Iran without congressional authorization.
The Prevention of Unconstitutional War with Iran Act of 2019, recently introduced in the Senate by New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall and in the House by California Democrat Anna Eshoo, would do that. No single person should be able to commit the lives of our young men and women to war without full debate by our elected representatives.
Dee Abrahamse, Long Beach
