Obama Asks Congress for “Limited” War on ISIS; Explaining “Limited”; Republicans Seek “Robust” War

On Wednesday, president Obama Asked Congress to Back War on Isis.
Six months after US planes began bombing Jihadi militants in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama is taking a political gamble by asking Congress to approve the military operation.
The White House on Wednesday sent to Congress a new war powers resolution to authorise a ‘limited’ military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) for the next three years.
In a statement at the White House, Mr Obama said the resolution was designed to give the ‘flexibility we need for unforeseen circumstances’. He would consider using US forces in Iraq or Syria if, for instance, the US received information about a meeting of Isis leaders.
But he insisted that the US was not getting ‘dragged back into another prolonged ground war in the Middle East’. The resolution was ‘not the authorisation of another ground war, like Afghanistan or Iraq’.

This post was published at Global Economic Analysis on February 13, 2015.