Put War Powers Back Where They Belong
(New York Times)…James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher, July 8, 2008
THE most agonizing decision we make as a nation is whether to go to war.
A bipartisan group that we led, the National War Powers Commission, has unanimously concluded after a year of study that the law purporting to govern the decision to engage in war — the 1973 War Powers Resolution — should be replaced by a new law