{"id":9777,"date":"2011-05-20T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2011-05-20T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:32:33","slug":"obama-nine-weeks-ago-libyan-involvement-a-matter-of-days-not-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9777\/obama-nine-weeks-ago-libyan-involvement-a-matter-of-days-not-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Nine Weeks Ago:  Libyan Involvement a Matter of &#8220;Days, Not Weeks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fully nine weeks ago, President Obama assured members of Congress and the American public that U.S. involvement in Libyan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0311\/51893.html\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;kinetic military action&#8221;<\/a> would be a matter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/19\/world\/africa\/19policy.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;days, not weeks.&#8221;<\/a> Notably, Obama also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2008\/specials\/CandidateQA\/ObamaQA\/\" target=\"_blank\">opined in 2007<\/a> that, &#8220;The president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.&#8221;\u00a0 Well, according to the 1973 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703509104576327220508314168.html?mod=ITP_opinion_0\" target=\"_blank\">War Powers Resolution<\/a>, the President must secure Congressional assent for military action or withdraw U.S. forces within 60 days.\u00a0 Today marks that 60-day milestone.\u00a0 Well played once again, Mr. President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully nine weeks ago, President Obama assured members of Congress and the American public that U.S. involvement in Libyan &#8220;kinetic military action&#8221; would be a matter of &#8220;days, not weeks.&#8221; Notably, Obama also opined in 2007 that, &#8220;The president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,2716,143,84,2714,2436,24,2715,44],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-60-days","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-kinetic-military-action","tag-libya","tag-obama","tag-war-powers-resolution","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}