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Drone strikes against ISIS and other terrorists are authorized by Congress under the act passed by them after 9/11. However, attacks like Trumps missile salvo need authorization.
Apparently not, hence the broad bipartisan support.
Apparently not, hence the broad bipartisan support.
Having "support" is meaningless. Either you have official authorization, or you don't, and Trump did not. Either you obey the Constitution or you ignore it, and Trump ignored it.
Having "support" is meaningless. Either you have official authorization, or you don't, and Trump did not. Either you obey the Constitution or you ignore it, and Trump ignored it.
You said that Trump gave Assad a license to kill when you thought he wasn't going to respond. Now you are complaining that Trump wasn't authorized to do anything.
Having "support" is meaningless. Either you have official authorization, or you don't, and Trump did not. Either you obey the Constitution or you ignore it, and Trump ignored it.
You don't even know what the Constitution says about it. It only says Congress has the sole power to *declare* war. The War Powers Act of 1973 says the President must get authorization within 60 days of initiating action, which has been widely interpreted that he can act immediately on his own but cannot sustain operations without approval.
In this instance, it has not been 60 days and he has not sustained actions.
Until such time as you are a federal judge ruling on it, your interpretation of "war" is irrelevant.
You don't even know what the Constitution says about it. It only says Congress has the sole power to *declare* war. The War Powers Act of 1973 says the President must get authorization within 60 days of initiating action, which has been widely interpreted that he can act immediately on his own but cannot sustain operations without approval.
In this instance, it has not been 60 days and he has not sustained actions.
Until such time as you are a federal judge ruling on it, your interpretation of "war" is irrelevant.
Only, and ONLY if there is a "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."
None of that is true regarding Assad. The attack was motivated by Trump's emotions and emotional pleas from his daughter.
None of that is true regarding Assad. The attack was motivated by Trump's emotions and emotional pleas from his daughter.
You didn't say that when you thought Trump wasn't going to do anything. You accused Trump of giving Assad a license to kill. Sounds like a lot of emotion on your part.
The reality is that Trump dealt with a war crime and because of his actions there are no chemical weapons being used now. It's not any more complicated than that.
Examples where it was illegally invoked was the military action in Libya and the airstrikes in Northern Syria against the fictional Khorasan Group.
It's never been used to go after the governments who bankrolled Al Qaeda or assisted it in the plot in other ways. The US may have clandestinely eliminated a few individuals linked to it (I recall about 4).
There was a law crafted to authorize military actions against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant but it never passed to my knowledge. Obama often claimed that he wanted to go to war but that the Republican Congress would impeach him. Once in Iraq, he refused to fight Islamic State unless the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stepped down.
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