Boiling the frogs of war
By Vox
Zack Beauchamp joins Dara and Matt to explain the ever-expanding 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force and Trump's even more expansive legal rationale for bombing Syria.
References and further reading:
Vox's history of the AUMF
A primer on the legal dispute in Doe v. Mattis
Chesney primer on the Corker-Kaine Draft AUMF
Who is Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben?
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