From announcing the authorization of airstrikes on ISIS earlier this month in the area around Mosul, the US war in Iraq has already seen an amount of mission creep so substantial that the term “creep” doesn’t seem anywhere near appropriate.
The initial goal was to stop ISIS from attacking Irbil. That expanded to Baghdad, then to wiping out ISIS in Iraq. Now, the war is set to be expanded into Syria, even though the US has almost no intelligence on where any targets are in Syria.
Expanding into Syria is just the next stop on an Iraq War that seems to be escalating without any end in sight, and with reports of ground troop deployments coming in Anbar Province, the war could quickly become a land war spanning multiple countries with no well-defined goals at all.
The expansion is a foregone conclusion, but the question of a Congressional vote is unclear. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R – KY) claimed he was confident Congress would approve the war. Yet only a handful in Congress have made public their views on the war, and Rep. Adam Schiff (D – CA) has been quite critical of the endless escalations.
What the vote’s results will be is only a question if there’s a vote at all, and there may well not be, with the administration arguing they don’t need Congressional approval, and much of Congress seemingly reluctant to make their position a matter of record ahead of the mid-term elections.
I’m also wondering if this war is set to expand into Iran,this would be Netanyahu’s dream come true….after all that’s why we are fighting this war.
:… only a question if there’s a vote at all…"
There's not going to be any vote, count on it. The last thing these miscreants want is to put their intentions on the record, especially right before an election. They may state on the stump that they're with the American people when it comes to being "war weary" but in their hearts (and bank accounts) they're warmongers willing to feed their constituents to the war machine's cavernous maw.
There wasn't a vote a year ago regarding Obama's planned bombing of Assad's forces and that wasn't even an election year. Our whole government is dysfunctional with congress continually not living up to its constitutional duty by voting before any intervention takes place. A year ago the British gave us a lesson on how a democracy should work when they voted down Cameron's wish to join the US in bombing Syria.
Congress will issue a strong statement to the effect that Obama has to decide. And Obama will do whatever Tel Aviv tells him to do. Netanyahou will get his way – to the ruin of the USA and maybe to Iran, but definitely to the USA. Eventually the World will have to shut down fascist, war-mongering Israel.
There is saying, when you win you sing. Bush regime did sing Obama trying to sing.
But we're not actually following the Project For a New American Century plan. We've only basically overthrown or are trying to overthrow every single country on the list. But no sir ree. That would be those Republicans who are so much different than the Democrats. In fact it took a lot of substances but I tried to destroy the last brain cell that even remembered such things when Obama won. But unlike for so many people it didnt' work.
Can somebody just bomb the shit out of the US and end more than half of the worlds problems?