September 12, 2014
OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT:
Obama's Unauthorized War (David Cole, 9/11/14, NY Review of Books)
This time, Obama has given no indication that he intends to seek Congress's authorization for airstrikes. There has been some talk of obtaining approval to send troops to train Iraqi forces, but Obama apparently thinks he doesn't need any authorization to drop bombs from the sky with the aim of killing human beings--even in a country, Syria, where he plainly will have no permission from the sovereign to do so.
Meanwhile, by definition, there is no sovereign in those portions of Syria.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 12, 2014 11:35 AM
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