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American presidents have gathered too much power to take the country into war. Toward the end of the Trump Administration, a movement to transfer some of that power back to Congress appeared to be gathering steam, driven in part by bipartisan war fatigue and in part by concern about what the erratic
“The United States cannot fix Syria,” an Obama administration official said. “I simply fail to understand why we have U.S. troops there.”
Following the Palestinian militant organization Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, the U.S. government acted swiftly to dissuade other regional actors such as
Legislation authorizing the 2003 war is still on the books—and alarmingly open-ended.
Leading legal scholar Harold Hongju Koh presents a strategy for ending the "war on terror."