Obama war request unites Congress: From either side, they hate it
President Barack Obama has achieved something unexpected in Congress: a degree of bipartisanship. There’s enough in his proposal for war powers against the Islamic State for both Democrats and Republicans to hate.
Too restrictive on ground troops, hawkish Republicans say. Overly broad language with no endgame in sight, several war-weary Democrats and Republicans with libertarian streaks complain.
Obama’s authorization for use of military force request against the Islamic State faces a rough go in a skeptical Congress that appears in no hurry to act on it. While most members of the House of Representatives and the Senate say they have the will to address Islamic State activities, they have serious doubts about whether Obama’s authorization request is the way to do it.
“There are many questions, I think, that need to be asked about this authorization … before the Congress can move forward,” said Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. “The principal question, however, will continue to be: Do we have a strategy?”
Obama’s request for a temporary, three-year authorization of war powers opens the door to ground troops — which Obama for months flatly ruled out. But it also calls for their use against the Islamic State in “limited circumstances,” which include the use of special operations forces to take action against the group’s leadership.
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... another authorization. We know how this goes. 
that would be a good thing. As an earlier post said, there is no threat from ISIS to the USA, so we should stay out of it. This has to be solved by those countries in the middle east, and fought by their military. We never learn though. Haven't we had enough war over the last decade? It's still not enough for some people. 
The scary thing is Obama might give into the right wingers in Congress to get it passed, as usual. He never gives into the liberal wing.
