This. People need to start demanding that all "strikes" against a country are first approved by Congress and for a limited period of time. The president should

This. People need to start demanding that all "strikes" against a country are first approved by Congress and for a limited period of time. The president should only retain the power to attack if there is an imminent threat that can be stopped by a quick response from the president. Even then, it should still be evaluated as soon as possible by Congress to see whether the president's "emergency response" was warranted or not. And by imminent, I mean the actual dictionary definition of imminent, not "Obamalang" imminent: > In addition to conducting airstrikes against Isis is Syria on Tuesday, the Obama administration also announced it had also targeted the “Khorasan Group”, a separate al-Qaida-linked terrorist organization. They justified it by claiming that the group was plotting an “imminent” attack on the US. Before last week, hardly anyone had heard of the Khorasan Group (in fact, even their name was classified), so it’s difficult to judge from public information just how threatening their alleged plot really was. But when you add in the administration’s definition of “imminent,” it becomes impossible. > Take, for example, this definition from a Justice Department white paper, which was leaked last year, intended to justify the killing of Americans overseas: > [A]n “imminent” threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons will take place in the immediate future. > To translate: “imminent” can mean a lot of things … including “not imminent”. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140924/17360528630/obama-administration-learns-if-you-redefine-every-word-dictionary-you-can-get-away-with-just-about-anything.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140924/17360528630/obama...