Rand Paul ISIS: The 51-year-old Kentucky senator has voiced out his yearning to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, and he plans to do this by declaring war against the terror group.
According to The Daily Beast, Paul's assessment on what the country needs to finally put an end on the string of killings by the ISIS militants is to give them war. He even gushed that "the most important " part of carrying out this big move is "how you go to war."
The former ophthalmologist's proposal is said to be part of his ongoing campaign in hopes of positioning himself as a foreign-policy heavyweight ahead of the 2016 Republican presidential primaries.
Rand Paul's ISIS war proposal is said to aim at superseding the presidential war powers and to better define the country's fight against the extremist group that has since been terrorising the northern portions of Syria and its neighbouring country Iraq.
"Right now this war is illegal until Congress acts pursuant to the Constitution and authorizes it," Paul said in a statement.
Additionally, Paul proposes that the U.S. must set certain limitations in its war against ISIS, such as limiting the use of combat ground forces except when there is "imminent danger," intelligence reasons and or for specific high value cases, reports NBC News.
Ran Paul's ISIS war resolution comes after President Barack Obama expanded and strengthened the fight against the extremist group in September by promising to do everything to "degrade and destroy" the militants.
Paul claims that it is the Congress' job to declare war against enemies of the country as per the U.S. Constitution.
"Right now this war is illegal until Congress acts pursuant to the Constitution and authorizes it," Paul noted.
Nevertheless, the chances that Rand Paul's ISIS war proposal will land Obama's desk is quite slim, given that the Congress has not declared war since World War II, according to TIME.
Still, Rand Paul has received fair credit and praise for his resolution that attempts to finally to restore the system.
"It is the most muscular and assertive use of congressional authority under the Constitution of any of the proposals that are out there so far," Chris Anders, a senior legislative counsel in the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office, said.
"We have a president deciding on his own once again to take the country to war without following the Constitution," he added.
On the contrary, there are also others who dissent from Rand Paul's ISIS war plan.
"If he really wanted to be smart on the merits of it politically, he could be the only candidate opposing getting involved in another miserable war in the Middle East," said Senior fellow at the Libertarian Cato Institute John Mueller.
"The danger with declaring war is that you're stuck with it," he quipped. "That's a real disadvantage."
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