In a city of unwieldly acronyms AUMF is the least pronounceable–and perhaps most important.
AUMF stands for Authorization for Use of Military Force.
It is the legal justification for the endless wars that the US is fighting in 40 percent of the world’s countries. (Source is solid: Watson Institute at Brown University)
Antiwar.com has the inside dope on the latest in AUMF politics.
Congress is unlikely to sign off if the administration just asks for a new war authorization specifically aimed at Iran. Instead, the administration is looking to again try to broaden the decades-old authorization they already have, hoping to squeeze one last big, plainly unintended war out of it.
