Even by the standards of Obama Inc, its approach to the Authorization for the Use of Military Force and ISIS has been completely incoherent.
At one point his people actually asked Congress to kill the Iraq War AUMF and then later suggested that they were relying on it. Obama has refused to offer an AUMF even though he could get a virtual blank check for anything he would put in there.
Kerry has told the Senate what Obama doesn’t want in an AUMF, which appears to be anything specific whatsoever, and would just rather keep on fighting it based on whatever.
Kerry could have legitimately argued that the fight against ISIS is covered by the 9/11 AUMF, but he chose not do that either.
The whole mess is another reminder that…
A. Obama refuses to accept any level of Congressional oversight or limits to his authority
B. Obama is also incapable of making up his mind about a war leading to a constant state of indecisiveness
This is a problem because not only do you have someone who wants absolute authority, but you have someone too indecisive to know what he wants on any issues that he isn’t politically comfortable with.
Then add on that…
1. His White House staffers are inexperienced and incompetent when it comes to practical governance.
2. Wars are really run through his cronies who fight out the agenda among themselves
3. Neither Obama nor his people care about the law
So we end up with banana republic stuff. This is how Napoleon III or Fidel Castro did things.
Obama can’t decide what to do. He also doesn’t want input from anyone outside his charmed circle as to what to do. And he isn’t interested in talking to Congress about what he wants to do.
So there is no AUMF. If Congress takes the lead, he’ll just ignore it and his people will tell the media that Congress is obstructing the war against ISIS, not because it’s true, but because he’s a liar who tells the same lies whenever it comes to protecting his power.
Obama didn’t want to bomb ISIS. He’s stuck doing what he doesn’t want to do. The execution is poor and the professionals are being hampered by a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing when it comes to this, but knows that he doesn’t want to work with anyone else.





















