Opinion
Published on May 28, 2013
Op-ed by Lieutenant General Charles Otstott, USA (Ret.) and Major General Paul D. Eaton, USA (Ret.)
The Senate Armed Services Committee held an important, under-discussed hearing recently. The question at hand: Should they expand the 2001 law that authorized military action after 9/11?
During the hearing, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” We agree, with this caveat: The current authorization should be revoked, not expanded, when the war against core al-Qaida and the Taliban ends.
