YES! They should declare war before sending soldiers into battle.
94%
NO! The military needs to be able to act faster than Congress.
6%
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Yes, but I dont think we should be sending troops there, we need to get out of that area, and leave those people alone, and let them work out their own problems, if we help them it should be with food, shelter, and medicla help.
I am very disappointed in Obama caving to the pressure from the MIC to further escalate our involvement in Syria. He's pursuing a failed policy by continuing our involvement in a region of the world we have no business being in. Granted Syria is in a downward spiral but our meddling in trying to depose another dictator is not where our efforts can be used effectively. We created the very enemies we are fighting and now we are going to help create more enemies. It is like quicksand; the more we struggle the deeper we get.
Obama, like LBJ, does not want the JFK treatment. The US has no business in Syria and should be ashamed of creating and supporting ISIL to serve the goals of PNAC.
Roland
The record of the Congress to assert its authority on decisions to wage wars or to control the abuses of the intelligence agencies over the last 60+ years is not encouraging.
The Congress has also permitted the consolidation and privatization of policing, war-making, and intelligence gathering for the planning and operation of foreign and domestic actions. Along with judicial deference to the war powers of the executive branch as legislated by Congress, the Congress has imposed its own limitations in its authority over these executive branch activities.
Finally, as we have learned through the Senate torture investigation, when it determines it is necessary, the CIA will spy on substantive oversight actions by the Congress and will assert its expertise as the final interpretor and arbiter on what the American people can learn about what is being done in their name.
Unfortunately, we will probably be the last to discover what has been done.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/shawcross-mercy.html
http://prospect.org/article/how-congress-helped-end-vietnam-war
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnimvivi18.html
http://www.thenation.com/article/look-for-hospitals-as-targets/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/24/the_world_is_a_battlefield_jeremy
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/23/congressman-calls-for-more-oversight...
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-cs...
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-cs...
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-cs...
http://www.hourofthetime.com/1-LF/November2012/Hour_Of_The_Time_11012013...
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/11/david_wise_the_cia_licensed_to
http://cloudfront-files-1.publicintegrity.org/legacy_projects/pdf_report...
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-cs...
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-cs...
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/08/01/forcing-the-cia-to-admi...
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_s...
I don't like either choice. My answer would be NO! no troops on the ground, period! Making the airspace a no fly zone is one thing but to put troops on the ground NO NO NO....we're expanding the war into another Nam.