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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This must not be allowed to happen!
Here on US soil he would supposedly use the UN. No matter how you look at it, he’s a$#%&!@*and a traitor!
That is right all of you guys gave the president the authority to give the authority to the United Nations. You gave America away. jerks
Trump wants America to be a Republic, One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. SOUND FORMILIAR.
Mitch McConnell is a traitor.
Oh, it was for something and we are getting to it.
I’m 65 . I too took that oath and I’m willing still today to die for that oath I took so long ago.
Liberalism is a disease and needs to be stopped. How dumb can people be to vote for people who take our rights away? Maybe they have caught it too.
Obama has fired or replaced the good officers in the Military the ones remaining support Obama and yes they will kill you and your family. The Military supports Obama or he would have been removed from power long ago.