Yesterday afternoon, President Obama discussed his administration’s counterterrorism policy in a speech at the National Defense University. In a simultaneously impressive and disappointing display, the President spoke more candidly about the U.S. counterterrorism policy, including the drones program, than he has yet to date.

Anything less than a sunset of the 2001 AUMF undermines the very foundation of our democracy and ensures that America is forever at war.

The biggest problem with drones has less to do with technology or jurisprudence and more to do with something softer: America's moral might and the goodwill it garners globally.

The Obama administration should end this war and double down on efforts to achieve broad and inclusive political solutions. There are several reasons why this track has a better chance for success.

Today, May 17, marks the 100th day of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay prison. For more than a decade, people have been held without charge or trial. You can take action today to encourage Congress to close Guantanamo.

Joe Volk served as FCNL's executive secretary from 1990 until 2011.

We at FCNL lost a friend and colleague last month. Bob Edgar died at his home in Burke, VA on April 23. He was 69. Bob served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1986. He represented the 7th congressional district of Pennsylvania.

We at FCNL extend our deepest sympathies to Bob's wife, Merle, and their family. We join with them in celebrating a life well lived, and, as Friends sometimes say, one who was well used by the Lord.

Probably no other member of Congress has so consistently voted for legislation endorsed by FCNL. Our FCNL voting records reflect a person who sought to be a problem solver, answering to the needs of "the least of these."

A handful of Democratic and Republican senators are considering a rewrite of 60 of the most consequential words to ever pass through Congress. The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed after the attacks of 11 September 2001, and provides the legal cornerstone for the so-called US "war on terror". Only one brave Congress member opposed it. It allows the US government to wage war at anytime, any place and on anyone deemed a threat to national security – with remarkably little evidence needed.