The diplomatic breakthrough, a factor in that was the willingness to use military force.
Some interpret what happened last year as the President stepped away from a redline. No, there was a redline.
had we bombed Assad last year, ISIL would be in Damascus.
I think it is something that we ought to just contemplate as we are thinking about U.S. power, that there was a diplomat...
the President ran, and it was one of the large reasons the public went for the President initially, is he said no Presid...
ISIL is the immediate threat and, therefore, should be addressed first.
It is my hope that this body will grapple with this four-point plan, will ask tough questions, will refine it...
If we're going to ask them to risk that, then we should do our job to bless the mission and say that it's worth it.
The administration testified, in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in May, that the 2002 AUMF was obsolete an...
I think the mission, as described, is reasonable. But, I think Congress is necessary.
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