Sherwood Ross, OpEdNews, July 3, 2009 President Obama has no legal authority either from the United Nations or the US Congress under the War Powers Resolution (WPR) to escalate the war in Afghanistan, a distinguished professor of international law says. "President Obama's surge of 21,000 troops now engaged in combat in Afghanistan comes on top of the 60,000 we already had there," says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law at Champaign. "The Obama Administration simply ignored Section 4(a)(3) of the WPR when it announced the escalation," Boyle noted. ... Obama