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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Easy burn the un now!!
George Gherardi
Hopefully Guantanamo Bay will be refitted to house all embassy members of the UN. Then they can try to keep doing what they’re doing, WITHOUT the protection of American laws. I have a feeling Communist laws won’t protect their criminal actions very well. Waterboarding will be the least of their concerns.
Hysterical ! Funny,
GRANTED by a cowardly Congress.
Do you really think he has the support of the military? I don’t!
One good thing about the military is that they swear an oath to preserve and protect the constitution from enemies foreign and domestic and not the president.
Has any president of the United States on record, has done anything like this or would do. ? Then what makes him so Special?
Lord help us if you give that
Not under the Constitution he doesn’t!