The Divine Right of Barack Obama; The "champion of the legislature’s prerogative to declare war has morphed into Napoleon."

 National Review Online

 

... “The strength of this coalition,” Obama added, “makes clear to the world that this is not just America’s fight alone.” This much, at least, was true. Among the nations that have signed on to the attacks are Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates — all vital accomplices in the winning of hearts and minds. And yet, for all the cosmopolitanism, one crucial ally was conspicuously missing from the roster of the willing: the Congress of the United States." ...

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" ... confined by little more than the scope of his ambition, he invented a new set of rules for the day, making it clear to one and all that if getting his way requires him to adopt the legal theories that he rejected so vehemently just six years ago, then so be it; that if achieving his ends requires further entrenching precedents that he was sent into office to smash, then so be it; ..." Full article...

By Charles C. W. Cooke

'Every War Must End'  ... "If the Obama administration fails to articulate an achievable military and political end game there will not only be “no alternative,” but the odds are good that the war will drift into more places, engulfing more people, and engendering more casualties and resentments as it goes. The U.S. will stick with it only until public support dissipates, and then we will be gone. Again. The president may call the war “over,” as he did in Iraq, but those we leave behind will have a different view." ...
Mr. Obama will leave office with the war raging and can blame all that follows on his successor,  just as he has done to President Bush.

Potential allies against ISIS doubt America’s commitment to being engaged abroad. They see the quality of Democrat leaders and those who vote them into office: