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U.S. Congress authorized both Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists https://en.wi

• Zigurd 11y ago
  These are not actual declarations of war against sovereign nations, and that's the problem. There are numerous other problems that follow from that. But, basically, Congress opened the door to the Executive starting a war on their own. It's not clear that the conditions for going from diplomacy to war laid out in these resolutions were actually met, but once a war was started, Congress lacked the balls to reign in the Executive by refusing to fund an undeclared war. And so on into the abyss. As noted in other posts, Congress is writing even more squishy and open ended "resolutions" regarding ISIS. I'm not trying to be pedantic or legalistic about declaring war. But, in practice, abandoning that rigor appears to have been disastrous.