Last night, nine days after we began bombing Libya, President Obama went on television to explain what we’re up to and what the plan is. It’s always nice to be kept in the loop. But the real outrage here isn’t that Obama — for once — has been reluctant to make a speech.It’s that our Nobel Peace Prize-winning, former constitutional law professor president has launched yet another war in the Middle East without any constitutional authority for doing so.
Equally offensive is the emerging legal pretext for the war, in which UN authorization supposedly eliminates the need for a congressional vote.”Why not go to Congress?” ABC’s Jake Tapper asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday.”We would welcome congressional support,” Clinton replied, but this is an “internationally authorized intervention.”
