Obama’s Parting Gift to America: Creation of a New Terrorist Group

As difficult as it is to identify any of Mr. Obama’s domestic initiatives as successes, his foreign policy might be even more disastrous.  Botch things up internationally and you can have a war on your hands.  And that sums up what Mr. Obama has accomplished internationally fairly well.

As if enough foreign enemies haven’t been created, it appears that one of Mr. Obama’s parting gifts is going to be the creation of one more.

An article published in The New York Times this past Sunday perfectly demonstrates how out of control and unconstitutional America’s foreign policy has become. It highlights the latest war being perpetrated by the Obama administration, which is expanding with very little scrutiny from the press or the government branch supposedly in charge of waging war, the U.S. Congress.

The latest growing battlefield is in Somalia, and it threatens to spiral out of control just like so many other undeclared war zones before it.

From the NY Times:

The administration has decided to deem the Shabab, the Islamist militant group in Somalia, to be part of the armed conflict that Congress authorized against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to senior American officials. The move is intended to shore up the legal basis for an intensifying campaign of airstrikes and other counterterrorism operations, carried out largely in support of African Union and Somali government forces.

The executive branch’s stretching of the 2001 war authorization against the original Al Qaeda to cover other Islamist groups in countries far from Afghanistan — even ones, like the Shabab, that did not exist at the time — has prompted recurring objections from some legal and foreign policy experts.

And this latest threat is one that Obama is creating for the world to deal with.

Would you look at that. Shabab didn’t even exists on 9/11, yet Obama is using 9/11 authority against al-Qaeda to wage war without Congressional approval. He is literally creating new al-Qaeda out of thin air.

Thank you so much, Mr. Obama, for proving the idiocy of the Nobel Committee which continued its policy of corrupting the meaning of the so-called “Peace Prize” by awarding it to you.  Enjoy it in your retirement knowing that you have a shared legacy with other great exponents of peace such as Yasser Arafat.

Source:  ZeroHedge