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Syria: Their War, Not OursBy Patrick J. BuchananThe debacle that is U.S. Syria policy is today on naked display.NATO ally Turkey and U.S.-backed Arab rebels this weekend attacked our most effective allies against ISIS, the Syrian Kurds.Earlier in August, U.S. planes threatened to shoot down Syrian planes over Hasakeh, and our Iraq-Syria war commander, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, issued a warning to Syria and Russia against any further air strikes around the city.Who authorized Gen. Townsend to threaten to shoot down Syrian or Russian planes — in Syria?When did Congress authorize an American war in Syria? Is the Constitution now inoperative?That we are sinking into a civil war where we sometimes seem to be fighting both sides is a tribute to the fecklessness of the Barack Obama-John Kerry foreign policy and the abdication of a Congress that refuses to either name our real enemy or authorize our deepening involvement.Our Congress appears again to have abdicated its war powers.Read More At: http://buchanan.org/blog/syria-war-not-125582