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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the u.s. military has no right to go against the american people and if directed to do so they should refuse or fight back which is their duty
We have absolutely no business ever invading or attacking a country that has not attacked us. This is warmongering and should be stopped. No wonder most of the other cou tries hate our guts.
Contact your reps tell them to vote no
Our government has bedn a corporation since 1871. We have no constitution.
Our military is being placed in with the UN.
Our government is a corporation. They shoved our constitution in a corner and have been using slmething they passed in 1871.
Our so called representatives see themselves as the elite, in a socialist type country they would still be among them elite and above the law.
Looks like the people will soon be forced to do what is necessary
Amen Glenda
I am fed up with both sides. I have never seen so much corruption in my 69 years. The Bushs and Clintons are both criminal families. Half of the republicans are neonazis and half of the democrats are marxists. This country is in huge trouble.