General Discussion

Joining with a European force to strike Libya.

We bombed in Yemen and in Somalia.

No, that wasn't Trump or Bush II or Bush I or Reagan. That was Obama. (and I leave out Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria as givens; did we ever have explicit Congressional authorization for our involvement in Syria? Oh--that was under the generic AUF for Bush II after 9-11).

Just pointing out that there was a lot of dissent over stretching and stretching again that AUF to include things never intended. Yet we still pretend that Congress explicitly authorized all those things.

As for oversight, that's post hoc. You don't oversee during the process--Congress doesn't have that power. Oversight is after action--maybe before other on-going actions, but you conduct oversight investigations about what has been not will be.