Senate Democrat Wants Bill Allowing Anti-ISIS Strikes in Syria

[jakeXT]

Source: Time


A Democratic senator said Tuesday that he’ll introduce legislation to give President Barack Obama “clear authority” to order U.S. airstrikes against Islamist militants in Syria.

Sen. Bill Nelson (F-Fla.) said he’ll file the legislation when Congress returns from recess next week. It wasn’t immediately clear if Nelson, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, would introduce the measure as stand-alone legislation or as part of a larger defense spending bill. He previewed the legislative move the same day that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) released a video purportedly showing the beheading death of American journalist Steven Sotloff—footage that, if authenticated, would be the second such video showing the group executing an American journalist in as many weeks.

“This will ensure there’s no question that the President has the legal authority he needs to use airstrikes in Syria,” Nelson said in a statement. “Let there be no doubt, we must go after ISIS right away because the U.S. is the only one that can put together a coalition to stop this group that’s intent on barbaric cruelty.”

ISIS has for months been mounting attacks and capturing territory across Iraq and along the Iraq-Syria border. American airstrikes have slowed and in some cases reversed the group’s progress in Iraq, but ISIS has continued to wreak havoc in Syria.

Read more: http://time.com/3259564/isis-iraq-syria-bill-nelson/

[rpannier]

1. Senator wants to give President the authority to strike ISIS in someone elses country

Did they ask the Syrian government or do we get to do it because we're the USA

[Journeyman]

2. I wonder if we'll permit the Syrians to bomb a maniac in Florida, someone like Bill Nelson. . .

a homicidal agitator with no clear perception of conventional boundaries or the rule of law.

[Scootaloo]

3. "Anti-ISIS strikes" wink wink nudge nudge

Operation Opposition Paragon Sword - O.O.P.S.

[pampango]

4. How about someone lean on Assad to attack ISIS in Syria?

Until ISIS threatened then captured the Syrian air base in the north last month, the Syrian military had studiously avoided attacking ISIS, preferring to attack more moderate, domestic opponents whom some might view as an acceptable option to the dictator in Damascus. If you contend all along that all opposition to you are "foreign terrorists", you better make sure that those "foreign terrorists" are there in plain sight.

Perhaps now Mr. Assad will spare some planes to attack ISIS. Perhaps even a tank or two.

[jamzrockz]

5. For anyone who thinks the SAA

and Hezbollah have been avoiding attacking ISIS, all you have to do is do a search on the Syria section on liveleak and you will see a well documented videos showing attacks on ISIS going back months. The truth is the for a while now ISIS have been the only real opposition left in Syria with Al Nusra coming into a very distant second and the FSA virtually non existent.

You will find videos of ISIS terrorists executing loads of brave Syrian soldiers, SAF bombing the snot out of ISIS and just back and forth attacks. This idea that somehow the Syria govt have allowed ISIS to grow is just not true. There is well documented evidence for anyone whose interested.

At a time when the US is openly criticizing Russia for interfering in Syria, the US and its intelligence is funding, training and giving intelligence info to Syria terrorists. Two Americans are beheaded and the US govt is all outraged, but the Syria govt have suffered 100x worse damage from this same people and nobody says anything.

Leave them the fuck alone, they have suffered enough. If anything, lets work with them them to get rid of the terrorists in their country.

[RandiFan1290]

6. Nelson

Another rw Reagan-crat I refused to vote for

[lark]

9. What?

Bill Nelson, the ex-astronaut? He may not be Elizabeth Warren but he usually votes the right way. He's supported Obamacare, net neutrality, social security expansion, etc. etc. Are you sure you're not thinking of Ben Nelson Repug turned pretend Dem?

[grahamhgreen]

7. Every bomb we drop creates more bin-lasens, not fewer.

[whereisjustice]

8. Meanwhile, back in the US, corruption, poverty, jobs to Asia, NSA. f'ing police state

declining wages and wall street crime all combined to create a festering stew of shit for the average American.

And here comes big bad Mr. Nelson to the rescue, he's gonna whup things up in Syria.

[jakeXT]

10. House GOP bill would authorize use of military force against ISIS

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said Wednesday that he plans to introduce a bill when Congress reconvenes next week that would authorize the use of military force against terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Wolf's legislation would further authorize the use of force against al Qaeda and its regional affiliates, al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and any other "emerging" terrorist group sharing "a common violent extremist ideology."

Wolf said that the House and Senate should address the terrorist group during its brief session in September.

"Congress needs to act on this before recessing at the end of September," Wolf said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/216521-house-gop-bill-would-authorize-use-of-force-against-isis