When was AUMF originally passed?
9/15/01
that debaters need only tip the scale to their side to win, giving them room to acknowledge but outweigh their opponent’s arguments.
only a third of the sitting members of Congress today
voted for the 2001 authorization - Pro
For instance, instead of bombing ISIS in Syria, the United States might hire Private Military Contractors or give munitions to the Iraqi Army. - Pro
Name seven countries the current AUMF has been used to support military campaigns in
Afghanistan, the Philippines, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia
What concrete harm is John Bellinger concerned about in a Pro world?
For example, as John Bellinger (former legal adviser to the State Department
and National Security Council under Bush) points out, there is a reasonable legal concern that
“if members of ISIS or of a new group today are detained and then challenge their detention as
not being authorized under the original authorization that they might have a very good
argument
What example does Urda give of a war in which the American Army waged covert war abroad, toppled regimes, and funded insurgents AND is that argument Pro or Con
October 11, 2002 - allowing the president “to
use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate to
(1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by
Iraq; and (2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq.”
What constitutional article outlines presidential power?
Discussing with the Washington Diplomat, Bellinger has also argued that the
“snowballing stretch” of the 2001 AUMF has expanded to “cover more persons, groups and
even nations.14” This extensive coverage --and the details that make it up, from fallen soldiers
to unending conflicts-- could constitute the basis of a Pro argument
it was “criticized as an overbroad interpretation of the bill,” especially since ISIS did not even exist when the September 11 attacks took place4
whether something is morally good or not: "This topic requires debaters to examine how the AUMF affects US power-projection, as well as the normative question of if power projection is good"