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No War in Syria
ItÂ’s time for Obama to back down from his ill-conceived and unnecessary call for war.
Gene Healy | September 10, 2013
Tonight, President Obama, who rose to the presidency on the strength of stirring speeches, goes back to the well with a prime-time address urging Congress to authorize an attack on Syria.He admits it’ll be “a heavy lift.” And how: per the Washington Post’s latest whip count in the House, even if all 170 undecideds break their way, the administration won’t be within shouting distance of a majority.
ThatÂ’s good, because the Authorization for the Use of Military Force thatÂ’s on the table deserves to fail. ItÂ’s TARP with Tomahawks.
The provisions purporting to restrict the president to a brief, “limited and tailored” war are too weak to stick.
What’s more, they’re undermined by the AUMF’s gratuitous overstatement of presidential power: “The President has authority under the Constitution to use force in order to defend the national security interests of the United States.”
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ItÂ’s time for Obama to back down from his ill-conceived and unnecessary call for war.
Gene Healy | September 10, 2013
Tonight, President Obama, who rose to the presidency on the strength of stirring speeches, goes back to the well with a prime-time address urging Congress to authorize an attack on Syria.He admits it’ll be “a heavy lift.” And how: per the Washington Post’s latest whip count in the House, even if all 170 undecideds break their way, the administration won’t be within shouting distance of a majority.
ThatÂ’s good, because the Authorization for the Use of Military Force thatÂ’s on the table deserves to fail. ItÂ’s TARP with Tomahawks.
The provisions purporting to restrict the president to a brief, “limited and tailored” war are too weak to stick.
What’s more, they’re undermined by the AUMF’s gratuitous overstatement of presidential power: “The President has authority under the Constitution to use force in order to defend the national security interests of the United States.”
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