All presidential candidates will have an opinion about ISIS and the war…..the problem is that there is only about 2 candidates that will be telling the truth…..all the chest thumping about defeating the extremists is just that……NOTHING but chest thumping.

If we are to continue this fight against ISIS, as most Repub candidates will espouse, then let us take a realistic look at the chances of success……..

Under the War Powers Act of 1973, a president has to obtain permission from Congress to continue any military actions longer than 30 days. The ISIS war has lasted nearly a year at this point, but there has yet to be a vote on the war in Congress.

Last week, the House rejected the Schiff Amendment, which would’ve forced a vote by March 31 of next year. Today, in a 139-288 vote, the House rejected another resolution, this time from Rep. Jim McGovern (D – MA) which, failing a vote approving the war would’ve required the Obama Administration to follow US law and end the war by the end of this year

With both rules votes failing by fairly wide margins, it seems increasingly probable that the ISIS war will never get even a token vote in the US Congress, but that the president will continue to be allowed to illegally continue it without any objections from the legislative branch.

That decision was NOT voted on for the good or the safety of the country…..it is a purely political decision…..NO one wants to explain him/her self back at home at election time…….the safety of our troops matters not…….it is all about conning the voter…..

The future of this fight, the one against ISIS, looks bleak…..because Congress is too cowardly to take a stance we are looking at more intervention and more escalation…..with little chance of success……

The top military and civilian leaders of the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, are both sounding extremely pessimistic on the ISIS war today, warning in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee that the training schemes in Iraq aren’t doing particularly well.

While Carter has previously lashed the Iraqi military as incompetent for losing repeatedly to ISIS, today he revealed that another major problem is common across both Iraq and Syria, that the Pentagon’s training scheme simply isn’t finding nearly enough recruits to meet their goals.

All Americans need to prepare for the lengthy wars that the admin and the Congress has given them……..more dark days ahead…….you remember those days…..don’t you?

AND NO ONE CARES!