If there’s one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree upon, it’s war. Both of them never saw a war they didn’t like unless the other party started it, it’s going badly, and it’s an election year. Have a look at this.
Yes, one of the sponsors is THAT Senator Tim Kaine, you know, the VP candidate on the Hillary 2016 ticket. The Republicans must all be slapping their foreheads now, saying, “It’d have been easier to get into a war with Hillary at the helm! Who knew?!” Senator Jeff Flake, yeah, he’s from here in Arizona. Our politicians love war. One, Congressperson Martha McSally, is a former air force pilot. You all know John McCain, right? This is the price you pay with several military bases here in Arizona. See, those are all “good jobs” for the civilian personnel on those bases. Sometimes, Tucson sounds like how it must have sounded in North Vietnam during the U.S. air war there, except for the explosions. Operation Rolling Hearing Loss continues merrily along in the skies of Tucson.
Gee, how touching! They want to declare war this time as opposed to just start bombing and worry about legality later. Okay, but who will they send the declaration of war to? ISIS is a non-state entity. What, will they just Twitter it out and hope ISIS cadre picks it up? In reality, what they better understand is this: When it’s a non-state entity, you can’t sign a cease-fire with them, either. Therefore, how will the U.S. exit this war, since cease-fires are its preferred route to getting someone else to take over the payments?
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Perhaps they could select a good country that has lots of oil, uh, I mean is an ISIS hotbed and fight them there. Remember that strategy? “We have to fight them over…