Paul raises the question: how does it meet the Constitutional requirements, a different question as to whether or not it makes political or strategic sense.
Via Daily Mail:
Lawmakers are demanding that President Donald Trump provide legal justification for the Pentagon’s strike on Syrian forces Thursday.
Bombs were dropped without their input, legislators say, in violation of a law requiring congressional consent for military action.
Trump must provide Congress with an Authorization for Use of Military Force request, they’re arguing, just as Barack Obama did in 2013 when he tried to make good on his ‘red line threat’ against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
‘The President needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the Constitution, and I call on him to come to Congress for a proper debate,’ Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said.
House members have already begun to depart Washington for their home districts as Congress commences a two-week recess in observance of the Passover and Easter holidays.