[Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: There's No Republican Mandate for More War

[Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/theres-no-republican-mand_b_6108784.html

[...]
It's true that some Republican candidates tried to use the "ISIS crisis" to
portray Democrats as "weak on national security." But these Republicans
haven't yet been forced to put forward and defend any specific "more
aggressive" alternative policy in the court of public opinion. It's one
thing to say that you think the President is doing a bad job confronting
ISIS. It's quite another to be forced to say what exactly you would do
differently.

Do these Republicans want to see U.S. ground troops engaged in combat
against ISIS in Iraq and Syria? If so, let them say so on the record; let
them introduce and vote for an authorization of force for Iraq and Syria
that includes the use of ground combat troops...
[...]

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1
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