War

Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution says congress has the power to declare war. President Obama has been conducting military operations in the Middle East but now realizes that ISIS is a threat to the United States and wants something official from the congress to continue these operations. He says he does not want to use enduring offensive ground combat operations and wants all operations to cease in three years. This is reminiscent of Obama when he named our mission , Operation Inherent Resolve. Former Secretary of State and Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs said of war: As Powell said in an April 1, 2009 interview on The Rachel Maddow Show, the Doctrine denotes the exhausting of all "political, economic, and diplomatic means", which, only if those means prove to be futile, should a nation resort to military force. Powell has expanded upon the Doctrine, asserting that when a nation is engaging in war, every resource and tool should be used to achieve decisive force against the enemy, minimizing U.S. casualties and ending the conflict quickly by forcing the weaker force to capitulate. There is a profound disconnect between these two views of what war is and this must be resolved before congress can declare war.