![]() ![]() Everybody else seems to be running around in a 2002 time warp, back when deploying the world’s most powerful military was supposed to bring peace and democracy to a maddeningly conflicted region. Just two of this season’s presidential candidates – Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul – seriously questioned the the hard-military tactics of the past 15 years. Invasions, occupations, air campaigns and blizzards of drones have led to levels of chaos that only madmen and prophets could have imagined when all this started. This trip we’re on, awhile back it started looking like a closed loop more than anything resembling progress from point A to point B. Come next January he’ll be handing the keys to the next in line, and off we’ll go with a brand new driver at the wheel. How many of us are still driving the same car we had in the early aughts? But like siblings handing down the family junker, Bush drove that AUMF hard for eight years and passed it on to Obama, who promised to end two wars and will probably leave us with three. Granted, we did get an upgrade with AUMF 2.0, the Iraq invasion authorization of 2002, but they’re basically one and the same model. What a long, strange trip it’s been, and all on the same set of wheels. ![]() All these years later it’s worth revisiting this document, the act of Congress whereby President George W Bush was empowered to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons. ![]()
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