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Is an important message to send but what comes next gets harder. when young americans start losing their lives, when we have conflicts in the air space with russia, this is going to get more complicated very quickly. that s why we need to have a clear straej. strategy. if this is a one off, does it go away. as the constitution gives congress the power to declare war but there s also reserve from the commander in chief everything short of war and there is a big, big difference between the two. it is a helpful exercise to go to congress even though every president since nixon has said the war powers acts is unconstitutional, it s a helpful exercise because it really does force a national conversation on what your goal is here and what your strategy should be for achieving it. yet the congress has shied away from that conversation because of the unpopularity at the end of the iraq war and afghanistan took so long. congress really going to game up ....
I don t think the courts will get to the merits of the case. martha: the war powers acts says you have 60 days to get congress approval which was not done. the constitution requires that our federal courts only hear cases in controversy. they don t give advisory opinions. if somebody comes into court they can t just disagree with the president. they have to be concretely affected in some capacity. in their legislative capacity they have lots of other things they can do. they can try to defund the operation in labia. the court should not get involved between the two elected branches. this is the struggle the constitution sets up. it s not for judicial decisions. martha: clearly it s a way to halt our activity in libya. do you think we should be there? should we continue to fund operations through nato? i think the president has ....