re: #282 Dave In Austin

Reminder: @potus requested @speakerryan and rest of Congress provide him with AUMF against IS in the 2015 SOTU. He’s still waiting.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 15, 2016

Trump thinks he can just declare war, and not identify the who/what/where/how?

Then again, most of his supporters don’t care about any of that either, so they just think we should launch the bombers and let the hellfire rain down.

Mind you, the US has been dropping ordnance on IS for years, even without the AUMF. We’ve been coordinating with the EU, and France in particular since Syria and Lebanon is in their wheelhouse (they were the former colonial power there). IS keeps getting pushed off the territory they claimed, and have been losing ground to the coalition forces across Iraq and Syria.

Assad benefits from this, but that’s seen as the lesser evil at this point, even if Assad’s a democidal war criminal who’s killed hundreds of thousands of his citizens to put down the uprising against him.