Think of our situation like this dude.
The American government gets told by the French government that you have to goto war in Outer Mongolia because the French say so. You're President promptly bend's over backwards to the French and begins bliaring through its teeth to goto war. Thinking that even if you're president doesnt have the guts to tell the French where to go you put you're faith in congress to do the right thing only to find out that 2/3's of them have got a backbone made out of rubber. War starts, war end (susposedly), war keeps going on with no end in sight
Now do you see what its like.