The Patriot Post® · Let the Bombing in Syria Commence

The U.S. began bombing ISIL targets in Syria yesterday. The New York Times reports, “The latest campaign opened with multiple strikes before dawn that focused on the Islamic State’s de facto capital, the city of Raqqa, and on its bases in the surrounding countryside. Other strikes hit in the provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasaka, whose oil wells [ISIL has] exploited to finance its operations.” And ABC News notes, “American airstrikes in Syria have taken out members of a shadowy al Qaeda unit known as the Khorasan Group who were planning ‘imminent’ attacks against targets including the U.S.” After bombing a seventh Islamic nation (mostly without congressional approval), our Nobel Peace Prize-winning commander in chief will address the nation today, and he’ll take his case to the UN later this week. Joe Biden warned us if we voted for Mitt Romney, we’d end up at war in Syria. He was right.