With just over a month left in office, President Obama has once again expanded America’s global war on terror, announcing that he has formally added Somali militant faction al-Shabaab into the “perpetrators of 9/11” war authorization from back in 2001.
Passed on September 14 of 2001, the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) was intended to authorize the war against al-Qaeda, but officials have used as the legal justification of myriad unrelated American wars around the world, of which al-Shabaab is just the latest.
The AUMF authorized war against any nations or organizations involved in 9/11. Al-Shabaab didn’t exist until years later, with the group forming in 2007 and becoming a US-listed terror group in 2008. President Obama, however, seems comfortable continuing to abuse the AUMF for any war that strikes his fancy.
The timing is particularly unusual, with Obama previously said to be loathe to start any new wars this late in his term to leave for the next president. While Obama has been attacking al-Shabaab for years anyhow, the reason behind the official declaration is unknown.
Obama has followed in the footsteps of Bill Clinton for eight years; so a debacle in Somalia is expected.
Oboomer will add Somalia to four wars: (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria)
he simultaneously has going on right now. This man has been a tool for the
NWO globalists the moment he entered office.
The USG’s so-called ‘Global War on Terrorism’ is just a crock of sh*t used
for regime change in areas of the planet which offer a strategic location for
military bases, and/or where natural resources are open for the plundering.
Oboomer (receiving) the Nobel Peace Prize was a joke as well.
“Oboomer will add Somalia to four wars: (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria) he simultaneously has going on right now. ”
Seeing as how the US war in Somalia has been going for 24 years so far, it would be hard for Obama to “add” it.
Thomas, you make a good point. Perhaps ‘escalate’ would
be a better choice than ‘add’.
Oh, in that case, we agree. I’m probably over-sensitive to the notion that it’s a new war — I watched the beginnings of it from the E-club at the US Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California — the news about the incident that became the book/movie “Black Hawk Down.” And I remember thinking “this is going to be long, drawn-out and dumb.”
It is hard to say it is now escalated, considering we paid Ethiopia to invade, are paying Kenya to occupy a portion even today. Black Hawk Down was during the Bill Clinton years, and was following on from Bush I’s activity there.
Awesome. Can’t wait for more refugees. There’s a slot for one scholarship that just opened at Ohio State.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and war criminal Obama is at it again, illegally expanding more wars . Please note that the US has no legal right to be in or over Syria, a sovereign country with a democratically elected President Assad.
And whoopee, here come more Somali Muslim asylum seekers displaced by the expansion of this conflict by Obama.
Somalia is where GWOT started, long before 9/11. It was kept ungoverned territory for decades, because the US does not approve of what emerges as attempts at self government.
It may have been only now added to a particular provision of the law, but that is only because we had already been doing it in Somalia for years when that law was written, and did not think we needed it for Somalia.
What’s the betting that al Shabaab was created by CIA/mossad, and is secretly USA funded and armed. Thus the USA has a pretext for intervention, and ends up with all the wealth in Somalia.