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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How much longer do we sit here?
???international??? The odasity of hope!
p**s off you democratic bastard…on what grounds you piece of a$#%&!@*…you remind me of the that white stuff on the top of chicken s**t
Looks like we are going to have to use a straight-jacket on the Low Life to keep him under control-our control for a change
Don Karnes Before all this mess, I never even thought about muslims. Now I can’t wait for every single one of them to be gone. Muslims-you are NOT having it your way!
And the American people have powers also.
And forget about the 72 virgins. We’ll take THAT away from you as well!!
Another idiot.
No problem, Barbara. I’m sooooo glad I don’t have one of those devices that changes what I’m intentionally trying to misspell, when the point is to do so. But yeah, we have so many words in the written language to get a point across, that sometimes our ”devices of convenience”, do just the opposite! 😛
And just what are YOU doing about it?