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Pradheep ShankerSenate-crafted Syria resolution riddled with loopholes for Obama
Washington Times - President Obama to strike
Syria under very specific circumstances, but analysts and lawmakers said the language still has plenty of holes the
White House could use to expand military action well beyond what
Congress appears to intend.
“Wiggle room? Plenty of that,” said
Louis Fisher, scholar in residence at the Constitution Project and former long-time expert for the
Congressional Research Service on separation of powers issues.
Writing the actual language to empower and constrain Mr. Obama is proving to be a difficult task, with the key authors being pulled in various directions.
Read MoreStudy: Iran builds up its 'foreign legion' in Syria
UPI - BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Western intelligence services have made much of
Hezbollah's military support for the embattled Damascus regime in Syria's civil war, but there's another, less well-known threat emerging there.
That's the growing force of Iraqi Shiite fighters who're also fighting to keep Syrian President Bashar Assad in power.
Many of them were trained by Hezbollah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to fight the Americans in Iraq, and now form a major element in Iran's new "foreign legion," intelligence officers and military experts say.
A study by Matthew Levitt and Aaron Y. Zein of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy found that Hezbollah of Lebanon, Iran's most powerful ally in the Arab world, is "establishing local proxies in Syria ... through which it can maintain influence and conduct operations to undermine stability in the country in the future."
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