Commander-in-What, Again?

tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — If you're worried that this country is drifting inexorably, even under Barack Obama, from a republic to a national-security state with a President/Decider, you may have worried about his comment in Oslo that "I am the commander in chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars." He is, indeed, but how did the nation get into those two wars — and an endless war on terror — when, Constitutionally, the nation is the President's commander-in-chief?