Summary
Although Libya is receding from the front pages and cable television, our involvement is not going to end soon. Attention will migrate to other issues, but the question of public approval will resurface, and with it the question of whether the White House should have sought congressional authorization and should do so even now.
The constitutional requirement seems pretty clear that only Congress has the authority to declare war. No one disputes that the president as commander in chief can respond to an attack or threat of attack without going to Congress, but that is not the situation presented by Libya.See the full content of this document
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Lack of Debate On Libya Will Haunt Obama
Even after the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush sought and received from Congress authorization for action in both Afghanistan and Iraq, just as his father had...
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