Here we go again. Reports that the Obama administration is planning, without congressional authorization, a military strike against Syria represents a grim reminder of the fact that presidential usurpation of the war power, by Republican and Democratic presidents alike, has become a grotesque fixture in the life of America. Executive aggrandizement of the power to initiate military hostilities, a virtually unbroken chain of constitutional violations from Harry Truman to Barack Obama, has been exacerbated by irresponsible editorials urging the president, not Congress, to punish the Syrian regime for its suspected use of chemical weapons against its own people/David Adler, Idaho Statesman. More here.

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