It is a hopeless open-ended, perpetual, and subjective concept (something the founders disdained) which puts absxolutely no check no the president. As I said, Obama may well consider you a "terrorist" for even visiting this site.
Again, why do you put such trust in Obama to decide such details.
Let me repeat, slowly this time:
The...Iraq...War...Resolution...and...The...Authorization... For...The...Use...Of...Military...Force...are...fully... functional...as..."Declarations of War". There is no requirement in the Constitution to use the term "declaration of war" when declaring a state of belligerency.
For further edification, see Barbary Pirates.
Terror is a strategy, not a nation of entity.
So what nation would you have had them direct the Authorization For The Use Of Military Force against? Are we not, in fact, making war against those who employ "terror as a strategy" -- regardless of where they might be located?
You can argue about whether there might have been a better term -- but it wouldn't be a particular nation, would it?
Again, why do you put such trust in Obama to decide such details.
First, you should know better than to insult me with a misrepresentation like that. Second, it should be clear to us all now that Leftists don't need a precedent nor a statute in place in order to abuse it. They'll simply make it up, if they have to.
The only way we, as a nation, can protect ourselves from such abuse as power is to elect Presidents who respect the country and its Constitution. It's not any of Bush's framework that is empowering Obama, it's the MSM, his majority vote, his majority party and his overweening ego.