War is over! If you want it

“Happy Xmas (War Is Over”) was John Lennon’s 1971 Christmas single with Yoko Ono. “War is over! If you want it,” went the song. Barack Obama is thinking along the same lines, and he he wants the war over. He has requested that Congress repeal the 2002 law authorizing the use of military force in Iraq.

The Washington Examiner’s Charles Hoskinson reports the reaction of retiring Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon. McKeon “said he thought the letter sent earlier in the day to House Speaker John Boehner from national security adviser Susan Rice was a joke.” McKeon actually condemns the request as something worse than a joke. Here is McKeon’s statement, quoted by Hoskinson:

When Speaker Boehner told me about Ms. Rice’s letter, I thought he was joking.

Obama Administration officials are warning us daily that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is ‘”worse than al-Qaeda” and an extreme threat to the American people. The American people aren’t worried that the President will send the military back to Iraq. They’re worried about a deadly terrorist state that can hit us from Wall Street to Main Street. They’re worried that this President refuses to do anything, at anytime, in any way, to stop the flood of national security crises that are popping up around the globe.

Why on earth is the President’s national security adviser pleading with Congress to help build Americans’ confidence that the President will not confront a clear and present danger to the United States? He needs no help there. Where is her plan to stop this looming threat? Where is her request for additional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to monitor the situation? Why isn’t she over here, building support to stop a common enemy? Why is she fighting Congress instead of ISIS? Why on earth is she refighting the 2003 Iraq War in 2014?

This isn’t just absurd. We’re past absurd. This is dangerous. This Administration is fiddling while the world burns, and now they’re demanding Congress play with them.

If the Administration fought terrorists with half the tenacity they fight straw men, we wouldn’t be in this mess. It is my sincere hope that someone comes to their senses on Pennsylvania Avenue, before something worse happens.

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