Boiling the frogs of war

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Zack Beauchamp joins Dara and Matt to explain the ever-expanding 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force and Trump's even more expansive legal rationale for bombing Syria. References and further reading: Vox's history of the AUMF A primer on the legal dispute in Doe v. Mattis Chesney primer on the Corker-Kaine Draft AUMF Who is Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whereas don't get fought with team building exercises.
0:02.7	Teams get built with team building exercises and they go,
0:05.2	but it works.
0:06.2	Yeah.
0:07.2	Yeah.
0:07.8	Hello.
0:14.4	Welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media
0:16.8	Podcast Network.
0:17.7	I'm Matthew Glacias, joined today by Jared Lind.
0:20.2	And we have special guest, Zach Beechham, joining us
0:23.4	from the foreign team, from the worldly podcast.
0:27.1	I think if last month's worldly Weeds crossover
0:29.7	was diplomatic exchange, this is more of a border raid.
0:33.2	We have taken Zach and we are bringing him here
0:35.7	to make us understand the authorization
0:38.0	for use of military force.
0:39.3	I hope I'm being held in the weeds against my will.
0:42.6	We had some important legal questions.
0:46.2	Donald Trump launched some air strikes against the government
0:49.6	of Syria recently.
0:51.5	It got fair amount of attention.
0:53.3	But the whole question of a legal basis for doing that,
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