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WHITE HOUSE HAS NO INTERNATIONAL LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR HITTING ISIS IN SYRIA
BY JOSH ROGIN 09.23.1412:00 AM ET
The White House has an answer for critics who want to know how the Obama administration can justify striking ISIS inside Syria under international law: If and when we actually do it, we will come up with a legal justification then.
White House Has No International Legal Justification for Hitting ISIS in Syria - The Daily Beast
Guess Obama came up with his back door, mission creep excuse.
Sure we do - the AUMF.
A raid into and out of Syria no more constitutes a campaign involving boots on the ground in Syria than our raid to kill Bin Laden represented an attempted replacement of the government of that country.
But, as usual, you have started with your conclusion, and worked backwards. And, as usual, been schooled for your efforts.
Good on the SOF involved - long-range raids like that are inherently dangerous, complex affairs, which they apparently pulled off without a hitch. SOCOM is earning it's budget increase. And a man who deserved to die is dead (it might have been handier if he was captured, but not everyone comes so agreeably), and ISIL will have to replace him.
Unfortunately, they probably can. ISIL is old AQI, and they probably learned well the importance of maintaining a depth of leaders able to quickly step into any billet. Less of a degradation than a (limited) IO victory (now he's a martyr).
There are probably only a couple of individuals in ISIL that we can kill that would actually have significant effects.