On Friday’s Special Report, Charles Krauthammer said President Obama could present a case in favor of air strikes against the Islamic State as being already legitimately authorized by Congress, but he ought not. “A president, even though he might have the authority to go ahead and act unilaterally, shouldn’t,” Krauthammer said. “It’s constitutionally indecent. And the two Bushes, the one who did the first Iraq War and the one who did the second Iraq War, both claimed and tried to preserve the authority of the office, in saying, “I don’t need the authorization, it already exists.” But they nonetheless went ahead and got it. And that is the constitutionally decent thing to do.”
Krauthammer went on to chastise Obama for not naming the operation against the Islamic State and said the president should not wait until after the election to seek an authorization from Congress.
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