Representative Sherman is ready to give up and convert.
Via CNS News
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Ca.), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned Tuesday that destroying ISIS would only empower those fighting against the terrorist group – who are almost as evil as ISIS.
“If you destroy one power in the Middle East, you empower the other side, and the four groups that are fighting ISIS now are in many ways nearly as evil as ISIS itself, and in fact, those who are fighting against ISIS today on the ground have killed far more Americans than ISIS has,” said Sherman, top Democrat on the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee.
Obama is planning to lay out his strategy for defeating ISIS on Wednesday.
Sherman said Obama should explain to the country “how complex the situation is and how you cannot just waive a magic wand and have ISIS disappear,” because, “the destruction of ISIS “doesn’t mean that truth and justice just emerges from the soil of the Middle East.”[…]
Sherman said he hopes the president “will put Congress on the spot and ask for an authorization to use force, because as important as it is to work for good governance in the Middle East, we’ve got to respect the United States Constitution.”
“It is not a given that our constitutional structure can be ignored and degraded and pulled apart and that somehow the society will be able to face tougher times than we have now without it completely unraveling,” he said.
In Sherman’s opinion, authorization to use force would include “air power alone” for a period of two to three years “with expedited procedures to reauthorize as this goes forward.”