George Will on executive branch, force authorization

I really like my PBS post below, but the world moves on, and so must I.

George F. Will, in his column today, discusses the Authorization for Use of Military Force, and explains why it alone does not make domestic eavesdropping legal. Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) has expressed this sentiment, as have most Democrats. Perhaps the Administratiion will recognize this, and perhaps Congress will work on some appropriate legislation. Bush, as Will points out, can't surf away forever on the wave that was the Sept. 14, 2001 AUMF resolution - it explicitly indicates force is authorized only against the persons or groups responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Anyway, Will begins his piece with the good point that any future such resolutions will be written with Proustian detail - as they should be.

I wrote an opinion column for my university newspaper (here I go again) in September of 2001, reminding readers of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. This resolution, of course, has been brought up many times in the past few years. If only the members of Congress had been reading the three-times-per-week school newspaper of the University of Cincinnati, perhaps the 2001 resolution's wording would have been more clear.