Presidential War Is Unconstitutional

The Huffington Post

 Presidential War Is Unconstitutional

 

Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

 

Monday, November 28, 2016 -- The Obama administration has decided to stretch the 15-year old congressional authorization for war against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, or those harboring them, to include an illegal war against a group in Somalia-al-Shabab-that wasn't even in existence at the time of the attacks in 2001.

In fact, as with many of its Islamist terrorist opponents worldwide-including the original al Qaeda, the perpetrator of 9/11 that arose from U.S. arming of Mujahideen guerrillas against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s and al Qaeda in Iraq, which arose to combat the U.S. invasion there and morphed into ISIS-the United States inadvertently helped create al-Shabab in the first place. Al-Shabab did not arise until after 2007, long after 9/11, when the U.S. sponsored an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to wrest control of the country from a milder Islamist council. The more virulent al-Shabab was rose to attempt to repel this foreign invasion. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/presidential-war-is-uncon_b_13280784.html