Conservatives Back Obama

The editors of the conservative flagship magazine National Review have endorsed Obama's decision to attack Libya, which neither attacked nor threatened the U.S. They said, "the most important reason to move in Libya was to preserve the rebellion" and topple Qaddafi. But they never bothered to mention Section 8, Article 1, of the U.S. Constitution that restricts to Congress the power to decide whether to go to war. Like Obama himself, the neoconservatives at NR are more interested in imposing their own private ideological visions on the world than in conserving American constitutional principles. Conceding to the president -- any president -- the power to use America's military to make war anywhere he pleases is itself an attack on the very foundations of the American republic.