This Parallel Between LBJ’s And Obama’s War Plans Will Terrify You

[mountaineer]

This Parallel Between LBJ’s And Obama’s War Plans Will Terrify You
September 18, 2014 By Sean Davis

Ed Morrissey over at HotAir has a great write-up on the new Wall Street Journal story about how President Obama plans to exert a great deal of “personal control” over Middle Eastern air strikes, so I won’t try to reprise his arguments. To briefly recap, here’s what the WSJ reported last night about Obama’s new strategy:

The U.S. military campaign against Islamist militants in Syria is being designed to allow President Barack Obama to exert a high degree of personal control, going so far as to require that the military obtain presidential signoff for strikes in Syrian territory, officials said.

Here’s where it gets spooky.  ...

Read the rest at The Federalist

[mountaineer]

Link to cited Ed Morrisey post.

[massadvj]

And OPapaDoc is going to have no problems getting the Republicans in congress to give him the authority to fight a war that is not winnable with the present strategy.