Yesterday, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky used the War Powers Act to force the U.S. Senate to vote on a resolution requiring President Joe Biden to remove all U.S. troops from Syria.

Paul says there are 900 troops there without congressional authorization.

He says they are sitting ducks and their mission there is unclear.

He says the lack of congressional approval is troubling.

Our founding fathers felt very clearly on this that we should not go to war without a vote of the legislature.

They wanted to make sure that the executive of the president was prohibited from going to war without the authority of the legislature.

We've drifted away from that.

Really hasn't been a valid declaration of war since World War Two.

We have at times taken votes to authorize the use of military force.

They call them in Armm.

We did when we went into the Iraq war.

So we did the voting properly.

It was still a disastrous mistake to go there.

But we never have voted on being in Syria.

We never voted on having troops in the middle of the Syrian civil war in which hundreds of thousands of people died, millions of people have been displaced.

And we owe it to the soldiers that are in Syria, the U.S. soldiers, the young men and women in Syria to have a debate and have a vote.

In the end, 13 senators voted for Senator Paul's resolution, but 84 voted against it.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said, quote, Passage of such a resolution would be a gift to Iran and its terrorist network.

Driving American troops from the Middle East is exactly what they'd like to see, end quote.