Foreign Policy is pretty much the trade journal of the Establishment diplomatic corps and professors of the field. And when this is its consensus assessment, it really means it's much worse than they are letting on: Obama's hesitant approach to foreign policy resulted in the biggest stain on his legacy
The link is to a reprint at Business Insider, since access to FP is firewalled.
Then there is this, too:
What exactly is the legal authorization of the United States dropping bombs on Syria, Libya, Somalia or Yemen? Can anyone point to a Congressional authorization?
And remember that in 2011, Obama imperially declared war on Libya without a syllable of Congressional authorization. Congress did in response what Congress has proven it does best: rolled over and played dead. It certainly did not protect its own exclusive Constitutional authority or attempt to reclaim it later. That's not even including that the administration did not even have a rudimentary plan for what it said it wanted to do. Now Libya is a failed state.
As I said in 2014:
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