It seems like just yesterday, but it has been 4,262 days now since Congress gave this broadly worded legislative grant of power to George W. Bush, while the fires still smoldered at the World Trade Center site.

The sweeping legislative authority contained in the AUMF — sanctioning „all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons“ — has ever since formed the centerpiece of the nation‘s so-called „war on terror.“