President Obama today asked Congress for "war powers" to fight ISIS/ISIL for the next three years. (Aren't we already bombing them on behalf of Jordan, the Saudis and others?) He says ISIS could become a threat to us here in the U.S. (Doubtful.) The President says our involvement will not be "long-term or large-scale" like Iraq or Afghanistan. (Good, but if that's the case, why bother? And why us? If the need is short and small, let someone else do it.)
Our presence would be limited to intelligence collection, rescue operations, special ops to takeout ISIS leaders (good, I guess), and "kinetic strikes". (WTF is that?)
So, Buster, what's your opinion?
After careful consideration, how about NOOOOOO!!!!! Will our military misadventures in this bad neck of the woods never end? Yes, Dubya stupidly put us on this path over a decade ago, but that was then, this is now and this is Obama's call. We're already "helping" over there. We're already engaged. Do we really need the Congressional stamp of approval to make it official? Enough war already! (And once again, we're declaring "war on terrorism," an absurd and impossible concept. It's a war against a noun, a war against a tactic. Have we learned nothing?)
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