Summary
It
appears that the US Congress has no intentions of launching strikes on the
terrorist group, ISIS. In December, President Obama publicly asked congress to
approve a mission to attack them. A month later, he used part of his State of
the Union address to try to convince lawmakers to go forward with the mission. Apparently,
the president’s call for action has fallen on deaf ears or no one thinks that
ISIS is a big enough threat to attack. Kevin McCarthy stated that the president’s
request to use military force was “dead in the house.” He stated that his
request could not even attain a majority vote. The Republicans House leader is
not really pressed on trying to convince the House members to authorize a
strike and the law makers have told the administration that they do not care if
they wage war because the law makers are staying out of it. While progress in
Congress is at a halt, President Obama continues to launch drone strikes
because it is all he has the authority to do.
Analysis
It
appears that this is just another time when the republicans are not going to
come to an agreement with the Democrats. I don’t know if the lack of support to
strike is really because they do not think it is necessary, or if it is just
another notion made by President Obama that the republican party are shutting
down before it can get off the ground. I hope that this will not come back to
hurt this country, especially since it seems like now would be the perfect time
to strike because the Iraqi forces are finally making progress against ISIS
forces. After ISIS just makes claims to launch 9/11 style attacks, I hope that
Congress comes to some kind of agreement soon.
Jordan Hagens
4/14/2015
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