However, Mr. Obama cannot evade his responsibility, under the War Powers Act, to seek Congressional approval to continue the operation.
Mr. Obama made the wrong choice, trying to evade his responsibility under the 1973 War Powers Act to seek Congressional authorization within 60 days of introducing armed forces into "hostilities" — or terminate the operation.
He never evaded his responsibilities as a journalist.
Likened earlier this year by Lord Turnbull, a former cabinet secretary (Britain's top civil servant), to Macavity the cat, who was never to be found at the scene of the crime, the prime minister will find it hard now to evade his own responsibility for what has gone wrong on Mr Darling's brief watch.
The court said the President had "evaded" his constitutional responsibilities by not signing.
Tony Blair even now attempts to evade responsibility for his actions, commenting on Wednesday on his decision to go to war: "I took it in good faith and in what I believed to be the best interests of country".
Jurors in the "American Sniper" trial said they found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of murder after deciding he was using his mental illness as an excuse to evade responsibility for his crimes.
For him, seclusion in a Vatican convent provides a way to evade responsibility for his central role in protecting thousands of priests who raped children around the world.
Then there's his friendship with Bush, his failure to ratify the Kyoto protocol, his controversial industrial relations policies and his ability to evade responsibility for scandals such as the Australian Wheat Board oil-for-food kickbacks.
