Not that I mind member of ISIS dying or anything (actually, I strongly approve of that), but exactly where did Obama get authorization to launch those air strikes?
Also, where are we getting targeting info?
And who, if anyone, if following up and exploiting these strikes?
If the Iraqis (and, I guess, the Iranians) don’t follow up it is mostly a waste of HE.
Don’t you know his highness Emperor Barack Hussein 0bama does not any authorization. How can you ask such a question. *Tsk tsk*
It’s actually from a law passed under Bush that was supposed to enable the President to order a more rapid military response to a problem, since the Dems had hemmed in the military to the point that the commanders on the ground were not permitted to do anything.
Obama, incidentally, had severely criticized Bush for making use of the law to do things like bomb the enemy in the ME. (After all, in Obama’s mind, there is no enemy there...)
The interesting thing is that, in the case of ISIS, it really wouldn’t have been necessary to use the law since I’m sure both Congress and the military were ready to go ahead long ago. But that’s typical unilateral Obama behavior.
It's a moral obligation. The US funded, trained and armed what became ISIS to overthrow a stable gov in Syria that protected minorities.
We should've bombed them off the planet when they were in a column leaving Syria.