How presidents used the 2001 AUMF to justify wars unrelated to 9/11
Congress’s blank check helped launched conflicts, many currently ongoing, that have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
Congress’s blank check helped launched conflicts, many currently ongoing, that have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
A sudden shift in casualty information provided by AFRICOM after US attacks in Somalia should be cause for concern.
Unfortunately it’s no surprise the White House hasn’t even remarked, much less justified recent actions in Afghanistan and Somalia.
The American interests at stake are unclear and Congress hasn’t provided authorization.
Trump’s instincts to withdraw them from the country were right. Now the Pentagon seems to be reverting back to old, failed strategies.
But Biden could turn it around by making the new Congress decide whether to put troops back into the country, or not.
The U.S.’s military-first approach to counterterrorism in Africa has failed.