Congress, Don’t Be Fooled; Obama Still Believes in Unlimited War
By BRUCE ACKERMANFEB. 11, 2015
PRESIDENT OBAMA is going before Congress to request authorization for the limited use of military force in a battle of up to three years against the Islamic State. On the surface, this looks like a welcome recognition of Congress’s ultimate authority in matters of war and peace. But unless the resolution put forward by the White House is amended, it will have the opposite effect. Congressional support will amount to the ringing endorsement of unlimited presidential war making.
Whatever else they decide, the House and Senate should revise the White House initiative to guarantee that it won’t have this tragic result. First do no harm; before proceeding with a debate over the limits of our continuing military engagement, Congress should make it impossible for future presidents to evade its final decision.
The problem is the double-barreled position advanced by Mr. Obama. He asserts that he already has sufficient congressional authority for an open-ended war with the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS. He bases this claim on an expansive reading of Congress’s 2001 resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to make war on Al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks. As long as this resolution remains on the books, Mr. Obama claims, he can continue fighting, even if Congress never agrees to a new resolution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/opinion/obama-still-believes-in-unlimited-war-isis.html
Unlimited wars have been an on going process since the end of world war two nothing new.
no jjj you don’t understand! It’s an outrage, because Obama!
If Obama didn’t pull troops out of Iraq and listened to the military commanders Isis would not exist. But he wanted to brag that he “brought the troops home” and look at th mess we are in now.