Wednesday, February 11, 2015

It's Only an Illusion

President Obama on Wednesday sent Congress draft legislation authorizing the use of military force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), warning that if the terror group was left unchecked, it would “pose a threat beyond the Middle East, including to the United States homeland.”

  The Hill
Because what we’ve been doing for the past lo these many months has not been war. It just looks like it. The use of drones is not military force. It’s….it’s….I don’t know what it is, but it isn’t military force. And it’s not war.
The proposed legislation limits Obama from the use of “enduring offensive ground combat operations,” deliberately vague language intended to win over those on the left wary of mission creep and those on the right who don’t want to restrict possible military action against ISIS.
In other words, it’s just a book of blank checks.
The White House bill limits the use of military force against ISIS to three years, unless Congress reauthorizes the resolution. And the legislation would also repeal the 2002 legislation authorizing the use of military force against Iraq — although not broader 2001 legislation enabling the use of force against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
Can we get any more ridiculous in our lawmaking?

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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