Sen. Lindsey Graham: I’m Declaring War on ISIS

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The resolution, which Graham plans to officially introduce after the Thanksgiving recess, is being shaped and shopped around to senators on Wednesday. Mr. Obama said the Islamic State is a splinter group of al Qaeda so the 2001 vote covers activities in Syria.

By contrast, Graham said he would propose an authorization with no expiration date or prohibition on United States ground troops. “What we’ve done is sat on the sidelines and criticized, but we have not been willing either to vote to authorize what’s going on, vote to stop what’s going on or vote to refine or revise what’s going on”, Kaine charged on the Senate floor.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday slammed GOP front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson, charging that the two political outsider candidates aren’t “ready to be commander in chief”.

“With thousands of servicemembers in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and attacks happening all over the world, the notion that a fourteen-year old statute aimed at another enemy is any kind of a substitute for Congressional authorization to go after ISIL is insufficient”, said Flake.

He also explained why he believed Congress would approve the declaration of war. He updated it after last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris to include broad language that would give future presidents permission to fight the Islamic State “wherever, whenever, and however”. “This authorization will mirror the approach we took against al-Qaeda after 9/11”.

In a statement summarizing the call, Cook said Carter told Le Drian that the men and women of the Defense Department stand with France entirely and are committed to helping France in any way they can.

His proposal sounds as staggeringly broad as the 2001 AUMF, which allows the president to use military force against anyone, anywhere, if they are connected to al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. “I choose to fight them in their backyard”.

The dispute between war hawks, such as Mr. Graham, and those who want a more limited engagement left Congress in a stalemate. McConnell argued that the president has failed to develop any strategy to combat ISIS, leaving Congress with nothing to work with.

Graham said he wants to step up the ground component in the fight against ISIS, saying that an army would most likely consist of about 100,000, but “about 10 percent of it needs to come from us”.