"John Bolton, Trump’s new national-security adviser, has long argued that for the U.S. to intervene effectively against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, “U.S. intervention could not be confined to Syria and would inevitably entail confronting Iran and possibly Russia.” And Trump himself on Monday pointedly suggested that Moscow and Tehran might share responsibility with Damascus for the chemical-weapons attack. On Tuesday, Russia’s UN ambassador responded by threatening “grave repercussions” if the U.S. again strikes the Syrian government. Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon warned that, “If there is an American strike, then we … will shoot down rockets and target the positions from where they were launched.”
Constitutionally, Trump has no authority to launch another war. The Constitution gives that power to Congress. When President Obama launched attacks against the Islamic State, his administration cited a law Congress passed on September 18, 2001, which authorized force against “those nations, organizations, or persons” involved in 9/11. That was dubious enough, given that the Islamic State didn’t exist in 2001. But claiming that authorization justifies striking Syria for using chemical weapons is absurd."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/aumf-syria/557729/
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