This is interesting to me. Where does the current situation put Trump, in terms of having to ask Congress to authorize war?
According to the War Powers Act, any president can fight for up to sixty days anywhere anytime before needing Congressional authorization, and if he doesn’t have it he has another 30 days to withdraw. However every adminstration has taken the postition that the WPA is an unconstitional usurpation of the president’s power as commander in cheif, and no action to enforce it has ever gone anywhere in court. The president has never needed authorization to use force going back to Adams and Jefferson. Just because Congress can declare war doesn’t mean the president needs a DOW to fight one.
I think he has a legal standing to do what he wants. That said, with the long knives out, and so much bad precedent being set already, he should put those shifty dogs on the record for where they stand. That said, I think this agitation is unnecessary and unwarranted. Some way should be found to take out the dictator. Not necessarily overtly.