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Take stock of the wars we’re fighting

By Washington Examiner

Published September 13, 2017 4:01am ET

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Take stock of the wars we’re fighting — It affronts both reason and the prerogative of Congress to justify our sprawling Middle East war by reaching back to an overly broad 2001 resolution that isn't even country-specific. Not one of the members of Congress who voted for that resolution in September 2001 expected it would still be invoked to justify the continued war in Afghanistan after two separate presidents had been term-limited out of office. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File) | Massoud Hossaini

America is at war. What war, exactly, isn’t quite clear.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tried to get Congress to answer this question this week, as the Senate debated this year’s military authorization bill.

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