A thoughtful debate by Congress, not just by the president and his insiders, might get us to the root of the problem that is ISIS–that it’s not our problem. That is until our airstrikes-to-nowhere make it so. “With Tomahawks raining down on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, it would be nice to have Congress debate the president’s newly declared war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but it doesn’t look like that will happen anytime soon,” writes Gene Healy at The Federalist. Healy continues, “If ‘blowback’ from our ever-expanding War on Terror takes the form of domestic terror attacks, that in itself will be taken as proof of the need for a more aggressive response abroad and new restrictions on liberties at home. ‘The global war on terror has acquired a life of its own,’ says intelligence analyst Patrick Lang: ‘It’s a self-licking ice cream cone.'”
How to Create Terrorists at Home
Terrorists at home – the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombings
