The Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by the Senate is a rewrite of the Constitution’s War Powers clause and grants the President broad authority to deploy ground troops almost everywhere in the world, including the United States. That’s the warning being voiced by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy in response to the AUMF bill proposed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The bill would grant the president overwhelming control over where the US forces are deployed, which is scary for two reasons. The first is the obvious threat to American citizens’ rights. If the military can be sent to an American city based on loose justifications, they could be used to impose martial law and even empower a police state that has already grown too powerful.
The second reason is the plain call back to Manifest Destiny. Americans do not want to police the world. If the European Union is too busy handling the migrant crisis and Russia has finally come to terms with the harsh economic reality that their country is on the brink of collapse, it would leave the United States to ensure the sovereignty of all democratic nations. A solution that nobody would want.
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Hey try it$#%&!@*hole and you will find out what power is
Our good for nothing Congress is in all Obama’s destruction of America! Even back when the first Bush was in office he was all for One World Order. We have allowed these corrupt people to take our beloved country down!
Thanks to congress
He is our ignore the constitution in chief. And we have docile sheep in the legislature.
Get out of the united nations
That’s all we need is one more of his bad ideas.
He doesnt hve our approval . Without it , consider yourself on a suicide mission and will exact your payment and all those tht are complicit
He better watch pulling martial law, people will revolt
Our men and woman in uniform will now take up arms against us. He will use the UN troops which will mean war.
Well if he HAD,{ past tense } HE DOSEN’T ANYMORE