Has congress declared war against syria or otherwise authorized force? Then what authority does the president have to be bombing syria? And why isn't anyone demanding the president stop bombing or make a case?
Lots of people declared Iraq an unconstitutional war despite the authorization from Congress. Obama doesn't have an authorization in Syria so why is any of our military attacking anyone in syria?
Removing Hussein created a power vacuum in the region, and the Arab Spring of 2011 rekindled the longstanding war between Sunnis & Shiites. ISIS took advantage of the instability created by the Civil War.
Now we have total chaos, with all these groups trying to assert control but with no political structure in place to resolve the struggle - and no army to bomb.
Contrary to the fucking moronic low-information Republicans who just want to drop bombs, this is not unified nation with a standing army - these are embedded terrorist groups living inside innocent non-combatant civil populations that cannot flee. (-They can't flee because Republicans and ISIS don't want them to flee. ISIS needs them as shields, and the Republican Party needs to use them to spread fear and attack Obama)
Simplistic (well-meaning) FOX News viewers like Grampa think we should just drop bombs on these embedded warring tribes, killing both the jihadists and the innocent civilians who have nowhere to flee. The dumb Republicans can't name the different groups fighting for power because Rush Limbaugh doesn't talk about these things.
We could bomb Ramallah into a parking lot, but this won't prevent ISIS from re-establishing elsewhere or re-taking Ramallah because there is no political solution that leaves Syria in a stable position to defend military gains.
This is why Robert Gates - Secretary of Defense under Bush 43 - said that military engagement won't work until we have a political structure in place to defend military gains - otherwise we are just feeding American lives into perpetual war, as the civil unrest and ISIS spreads from location to location.
Syria is a failed state. It does not have a stable government and military in place to hold our military gains.
The key for Republicans is to blame Obama for not taking military action, but also to blame him for taking military action.
The key to ignore the details of this very complex war and say anything that harms Obama.
The key is to use the terrorist threat to win the White House but not to understand Syria.