Posted on 02/11/2015 12:01:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama asked Congress on Wednesday to authorize military force against Islamic State that would bar any large-scale invasion by U.S. ground troops and limit operations to three years.
Republicans, who control Congress, put up swift resistance to the proposal. They say Obama's foreign policy is too passive and want stronger measures against the militants, also known as ISIL.
With Obama's fellow Democrats wary of another Middle East war, it could be difficult for the White House to win enough support to pass the bill, even though six months have passed since the military campaign began.
Some lawmakers predicted a vote as soon as March but others anticipated debate could last for months.
The proposed resolution says Islamic State "has committed despicable acts of violence and mass execution." Its militants have killed thousands of civilians while seizing territory in Iraq and Syria in an attempt to establish a hub of jihadism in the heart of the Arab world.
They have also generated international outrage by beheading several western journalists and aid workers and burning to death a Jordanian pilot.
Obama sent his request to Congress a day after his administration confirmed the death of Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old aid worker who was the last known American hostage held by the group.
"I have directed a comprehensive and sustained strategy to degrade and defeat ISIL,"...
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It seems to me he’s using ISIS as a means of expanding his authority in other areas.....since ISIS is all over the ME, not to mention those going into the fight from Europe ad other countries, ...just how far can he “militarily” go if he choses to do so??
I’d like to know the answer to your question too. Like you say ISIS is not a (officially/formally) recognized “nation/state” as far as i know.
When I said Obama cannot and will not identify the enemy, I wasn’t talking about “country by country”.
Our enemy in this case is Islam. Eff Obama when he says America is not at war with Islam.
Everybody the whole world over - including muslims - know that Islam is our enemy. But Obama has his head buried so far up his own smelly Obama, he will not admit that.
I would suspect he is going to ask that we be allowed to send a platoon of unarmed, retired, postal workers over there. That is as much harm as he would want to do his fellow muslim brothers.
Worthy of repeating....
The 2016 election is coming.
** BUYER BEWARE OF THE REAL MOTIVES HERE **
Cruz weighs in....
“I hope it will force this administration to clearly articulate their objectives and their specific plan to accomplish that objective,” he said. “That the process of going to Congress and seeking authorization leads to the natural question:.... authorization to do what? What do you intend to do and how do you intend to do it?”
Obama makes every excuse in to the book supporting Islam and now wants the authority to go to war with the Islamic State, something does not smell right ,no it stinks . Is there Secret Talks goes on with ISIS ?
I wish this guy would cite details for once but I know that will never be the case since he never does
If we are not going to go all in to find and kill these bastards with anything and everything at our disposal and at any time or any place this is a sure loser for us. Otherwise, the Bamster will just bleed us dry, kill our best, demoralize the rest of us of us, import millions of more Muzzies for free welfare and voters - and then pull out and surrender, just like he did in Iraq and is doing in Afgahnistan.
I don't trust a thing O'Bastard wants to do. Nothing. Any thing he and his traitorous crew are proposing is poison because they are poison.
I wouldn’t want to see us go at with Russia no matter who is running the show. I’m not saying we’d lose, but the cost would be tremendous. Now, I do agree the current resident of the white hut isn’t who I’d want running the show in a war with ANYONE....
Not one more American soldier should go into harm’s way unless our objective is to defeat and destroy ISIS. There is no middle ground.
If Obama does not have the stomach to wage war against these savages, he should keep his mouth shut and stop pretending he is a Leader.
Must be nice to have a Nobel Peace Prize.
Half a$$ed requests get you quagmires.
If the REAL solution is eliminating Islam from the Earth, how do we even start to do that? The Islamic has about 1.7 BILLION people!
I would think that as Obama has a track record to this point of doing any damned thing he wants while flippin’ the wee birdie to Congress that he’s up to something. Alarm bells are going off.
I think the b-stard is making a move to setup the Republican controlled Congress to either be complicit in his idiocy, or to blame for his failure down the road.
We don’t fight real wars, we fight pretend ones while we do business with the enemy countries.
It happened with Communism and now with terrorism and both political parties have done it.
Its been the US policy since WW 2.
King Opie just wants more money to buy arms for the “moderate muslim terrorists”.
Actually order will come on the heals of the Fall of Damascus...about 7 years later.
The islamist enemy wants to engage the islamist enemy.
Why aren’t I laughing?
And our inillustrious Congress says this debate may go on for months?
We are so screwed.
...did Obama say which side he’s going to be fighting for?
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