Obama Has Relied on the Flimsiest Rationale for Launching Attacks on Countries Across the Planet

A 15-year-old piece of legislation authorizing retaliation for the September 11th attacks is now being invoked by the Obama administration to greenlight a major military campaign against the Islamic State in Libya, a country already devastated by a disastrous western intervention in 2011. Known as the the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), the legislation has been referenced 37 times total by the Bush and Obama administrations to justify deployments, bombings, military action, tribunals and imprisonment in at least 14 different countries