{"id":5640,"date":"2015-02-13T06:34:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2015-02-13T06:34:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:34:37","slug":"the-new-york-times-admits-despite-going-to-congress-obama-is-still-defending-unlimited-war-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5640","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Admits \u2013 Despite Going to Congress, Obama is Still Defending Unlimited War Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/02\/12\/the-new-york-times-admits-obama-is-asking-congress-for-unlimited-war-powers\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times Admits \u2013 Despite Going to Congress, Obama is Still Defending Unlimited War Powers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"484\" data-total-count=\"484\"><strong><em>President Obama is going before Congress to\u00a0request\u00a0authorization\u00a0for the limited use of military force in a battle of up to three years against the Islamic State. On the surface, this looks like a welcome recognition of Congress\u2019s ultimate authority in matters of war and peace. But unless the resolution put forward by the White House is amended, it will have the opposite effect. Congressional support will amount to the ringing endorsement of unlimited presidential war making.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"484\" data-total-count=\"484\"><strong><em>People who take the Constitution seriously, on both sides of the aisle, must not allow this to happen. They should insist on the repeal of the 2001 resolution and an explicit repudiation of the \u201cassociated forces\u201d doctrine. Only then will the next president be required to return to Congress to gain its consent if he or she wants to continue the war past the 2018 deadline. If it fails to take a stand now, its sham debate will generate another destructive cycle of distrust that will further alienate Americans from their representatives.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"484\" data-total-count=\"484\">&#8211; From Bruce Ackerman\u2019s\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>op-ed:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/12\/opinion\/obama-still-believes-in-unlimited-war-isis.html?_r=0\">Congress, Don\u2019t Be Fooled; Obama Still Believes in Unlimited War<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"484\" data-total-count=\"484\">First off, I want to thank Bruce Ackerman for writing this op-ed in the<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0yesterday. Although the Obama administration already claims unlimited war powers in practice, this claim is illegitimate, which is why he is going to Congress to solidify his ability to declare worldwide warfare against a terrorist group that is a\u00a0direct result of U.S. foreign policy: ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Admits \u2013 Despite Going to Congress, Obama is Still Defending Unlimited War Powers President Obama is going before Congress to\u00a0request\u00a0authorization\u00a0for the limited use of military force in a battle of up to three years against the Islamic State. On the surface, this looks like a welcome recognition of Congress\u2019s ultimate authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1239,447,1921,3496,1796,838,862,3497],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-is","tag-islamic-state","tag-new-york-times","tag-presidential-powers","tag-us-congress","tag-us-constitution","tag-war","tag-war-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}