"We confirmed to their representatives in writing that this constituted the necessary consent for our action," the British Foreign Office said.
However, he said, the prime minister had simply being to build consensus by recalling parliament: "[David Cameron] is pretty much the first PM who would have gone to the Commons to get consent for military action".
But even if the mechanisms were in place for us to get Karzai's consent for every action we took without feeling like the Army had become indistinguishable from Blackwater would it make sense to do so, or would it be slightly mad?
As the Senate debate on the use of force against Iraq neared its climax in October 2002, Senator John McCain turned on the floor to Senator Evan Bayh to ask what had led him to take such "a visible, as well as important" role in seeking Congressional consent for military action.
For example, complex or lengthy end-user license agreements may allow an organization to sell highly sensitive medical data to third-parties, but has the individual truly given informed consent for these actions?
Withdraw your consent from actions that harm your child.
With this piece of knowledge as a reference point, planners can more effectively work with difference and make plans and facilitate consent for specific concerted actions.
That is a major difficulty, I think, since the United States can scarcely be an effective "claviger" (key bearer) and "steward" of the states of consent if its executive cannot secure enduring domestic consent for its "preclusive" actions.
Mr. Xie sees no popular consent for either course of action.
It is one thing, he argues, for a person to consent by actions rather than words; it is quite another to claim a person has consented without being aware that they have done so.
If the case for action is made honestly, if no one's consent is manipulated, let's hope the people say yes.
