Summary on "Islamic State will lose, says Obama" and connection

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31425384

    Summary   

       President Barack Obama recently received congress approval on formally authorizing a military force against the Islamic State militants. He had clarified that it would not turn into another ground break war against the Middle East, but did state that this mission would take longer than expected. President Obama also clarified that this wasn't going to be an endless war. Furthermore, Obama called lawmakers to come together and help to not drag this situation into prolonged war. President Obama even stated "ISIL is going to loose". Obama does believe that this mission will be difficult but still has ambition to successfully achieve it. The main goal of the mission is to degrade and destroy Islamic State militants. In the end, President Obama is trying to quickly demolish the situation it currently has with the Islamic State. 

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       President Obama's congress authorization approval is similar to President Bush's situation in the Iraq War Resolution. The Iraq Resolution was a joint resolution which was a public law that authorized military action against Iraq on October 2002. These two authorizations both are similar because they both targeted an attack on the Middle East. Even though the situations may be different, both President Bush and Obama seem to be seeking authorization for a military attack towards the same place.

      In the past, conflict arose between President Bush and the Plaintiffs, who argued that the President did not have the authority to declare war. With President Obama's situation he decided to seek help from the lawmakers and wanted to unite with them to possibly prevent the problems which occurred in the past.Obama is trying to show that the actions the United States are taking aren't in any way wrong.

     Both President Bush and Obama were determined to receive authorization and had received what they wanted in the first place. In addition, President Obama and Bush were both ambitious to succeed within their missions in different ways. With this intention, Obama clarified that the past would not be repeated again in particular with the ground war with the Middle East. In the end, both President Obama and President Bush dealt with similar situations with the Middle East resulting in situations with the presidents favours.