Hawkishness toward ISIS has become fashionable these days among US politicians, and even the ever-escalating war against ISIS in Iraq, and talks of expanding it into Syria, aren’t nearly enough for many Congressmen’s tastes.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R – CA), the House Majority Leader, pushed for a bigger war, and sooner, insisting in a new interview that “if the president won’t act, I think we have to take some action to move forward.”
Four different House committees are expected to hold hearings next week on ISIS, and Rep. McCarthy insisted that they needed to come up with a “concise foreign policy doctrine” for the war.
Congress may try to authorize expansions of the ISIS conflict as a way to try to escalate the war faster than the administration planned, but on the surface, it doesn’t appear that there is any way to “force” the president to escalate the war with such resolutions.
Yesterday I saw the buffoon O'Reilly calling for a formal US Congressional Declaration of War.
The enemy is declared to be "Muslim Terrorism". They must quaking in their sandals in the Muslim Terrorism capital city. You see, we're….we're…..we're SERIOUS about this…..
We need to BUG OUT…hhven't we caused enough death & destruction WORLDWIDE?
“concise foreign policy doctrine”
Didn't we already have "DEGRADE & DESTROY"?
I'm assuming they are in the hunt for a 'boogeyman.' That "concise foreign policy doctrine" rhetoric usually means: WMD, yellowcake uranium, curveball, poison gas, and supporting terrorist, but those are all old stuff, what will they think of next?
Correction: Another FALSE FLAG will work wonders!
Interestingly there are two problems here, firstly while congress can declare war Firstly it is the Commander in chief who prosecutes the war, the President and Congress do not have the authority to order the Military to do anything, Secondly a bigger problem is that under the Hague Conventions which the US is a signatory to, it is ONLY possible to go to war with an actual country! Let us be clear here we are seeing the very same idiots who caused the original Iraqi, Syrian, debacle trying to have a second bite at the Cherry!
My thoughts exactly…that the Congresscritter has let his position (perhaps he's angling for Weeping John's job) go to his head. The CIC develops the mission plans and then requests funding from Congress. And as for foreign policy doctrine, well, again, it's not Congress's job to develop policy. They advise and consent – or not. But this has been the MO of Congress for a long time.
And the Congresscritters are the ones who constantly complain about Executive crossing into Legislative areas.
The American people need to take a stand on this expansion of war. Sitting quietly on the sidelines and allowing the idiots on Capitol Hill to take the country down this road is only going to lead to friggin disaster.
We must remember that congress responds only to the wishes of the 1% who bankroll their reelection, and who are always in favor of another war.
Why didnt any congressman go to war against Israel ? Why doesnt it now ?
Cause Israel is in their camp.
If you brake it you pay for it. Although everything is in the hand of commander in chief, yet, both congress and WH guilty to create ISIS to began with. Both sides been working for dividing Iraq, Joe Biden while he was the speaker, and now when his job as Vice President to McCain and all other senators from AIPAC to those who markets the Saudis extension in Iraq and Syria.
It was not the Iraqi nor the Syrian people wanted for their regime to be changed, the majority of the people hade a very pleasant life, there was no sectarian divisions and other firm of social problem nor they hade to face the Sunnis terrorism.
The problems where nation in Middle East facing, is because the USG/English deceptive foreign politics as falsified democracy creating what us ISIS, it was and still is the USG/English/Saudis problems to be solve, either by the governments in the region, as Iran, Iraq giving the fact that the costs would be paid by USG/English due to their creation or those who created this Saudis barbaric caliphate regime.
Not willing to do something about their creation is ok, but they can take their fake democracy and their militarism, while at it their bulldogs with them and leave the people in Middle East alone.