ISIS jihadists

His point, in recognizing the cancer that’s upon us, is to pressure the Senate to pass Obama’s war authorization which *limits* what the president can do. Remember that? Yes, it’s still out there. So, it looks like Ash Carter is being a good political potted plant after all,

Via Washington Times.

Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Wednesday that the Islamic State is “metastasizing” outside of Syria and Iraq and urged lawmakers to pass the president’s war authorization without limitations on where U.S. military could strike.

Senators, however, worried that it would be difficult to pass any authorization for the use of military force since neither party supports the language proposed by the president and administration officials said no authorization is better than a party-line vote.

Senior administration officials defended the president’s three-year authorization to fight the Islamic State at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, saying that the authorization for the use of military force provides enough flexibility to defeat the Islamic State and would provide reassurance to troops and allies that America is united in its desire to defeat the Islamic State, also called Daesh…

Lawmakers said that there is little support for the president’s authorization with Democrats believing it goes too far and Republicans believing it puts too many limitations on the commander-in-chief.

“What we have come to understand is that — this is not a pejorative statement, it’s an observation — we don’t know of a single Democrat in the U.S. Congress…that supports this authorization to use military force,” said Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “What it does on this side of the aisle is put Republican senators in the position of looking at a limited AUMF and ratifies a strategy in Syria which many people don’t believe is effective. It doesn’t show the commitment necessary to be successful in the short term.”

An ambiguous portion of the authorization that prohibits “enduring offensive ground combat operations” is the one of the main sticking points.

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  1. strider says:

    Brings up the old saying: “Where there’s a will there’s a way.”

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