talk with your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. missile strike on syria has not pleased the altright, ann colter. richard spencer who called it the trump betrayal and tweeted stand with assad. then there s the exbreitbart publisher steve bannon who argued against the strike because it didn t advance trump s america first doctrine. america first lost out according to sources close to bannon. also been a huge amount of reporting about a brutal civil war in the white house more broadly.
to get congressional authorization before going to war. much like barack obama did the same thing when he was running for office, he said that you needed to get congressional authorization before instigating a war, an act of war or going to initiating military hostilities. i meanboth parties have been hypocrites on this issue. i look back to barack obama s presidency as a great disappointment. progressives are upset. he promised to get all troops and end the war in afghanistan. he promised so many things. we still have two aumfs that this administration is using to be in syria and iraq. you talk about aumf. there is a real question of legality. i saw john mccain, someone, i think it was john mccain said the 2001 aumf covers the strikes against assad. that s how the obama administration interpreted it also. against assad?
against assad. that s how the obama administration interpreted it also. against assad? basically anything that we were going to do, we were using that aumf to justify those actions. but just to be clear, that aumf was drafted and passed after we were struck by al qaeda and 9/11 for associated forces. subsequent legislation people were using that as the figure leaf. i m glad you used that phrase. you like my phrase? assad is literally bombing al qaeda. do we have the congressman back? i m here. oh, great. so i want to ask you this question about authorization. i mean, what do you think of the idea that and you served i believe in iraq and you re a veteran yourself. what do you think about the need for authorization of some kind? what do you think that the 2001 aumf would cover airstrikes against assad? certainly not against assad.
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that s in russia s interest as well as ours. the announcement by russia was somewhat petulant. someone was pointing out the fact that there s this sort of open door to escalation. there s also the idea of just essentially this was understood and intended to be understood as fundamentally symbolic and there s precedent to say israel has had several strikes over the last six years where they ve gone and struck assad, come back out, have not been embroiled in a larger stained military activity inside the country. how possible is that? yeah, that s right. that s exactly right. so israel s been very clear, at least starting privately and then publicly, about what their red lines are in terms of the transfer of advanced weapons systems and to hezbollah in lebanon and they seem to have, you know, without getting into the details, they seem to have taken action in some examples to counter act the movement of