In South Carolina, Voters Want Total War on ISIS
Members of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi security forces patrol on a road as smoke billows from the Khubbaz oil field, some 25 km west of the northern city of Kirkuk, on February 2, 2015, a fews days after Peshmerga forces and police retook the area from Islamic State (IS) group.
Photographer: Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty Images)HARDEEVILLE, S.C. – After the Beaufort County Republicans finished their bureaucratic business, after Representative Mark Sanford gave a 10-minute update on the doings in Washington, it was time for questions. It took roughly 10 seconds for a voter to ask Sanford how he’d vote on an authorization of military force against the Islamic State.
“I think my position is the same one shared by y’all,” said Sanford. “The Constitution is crystal clear; only Congress can declare war. And I think the founders made that call for a reason. At the end of the day, body bags don’t flow back to Washington, DC. They flow back to congressional districts and states across this country.”