Senators say White House hasn’t laid out Syria strategy
Senators left a closed-door briefing Friday saying the Trump administration did not lay out a comprehensive plan for Syria.
Lawmakers huddled with Gen. Joseph Dunford, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, on Friday afternoon but said the meeting focused on an airstrike carried out Thursday and did not touch on what the administration’s broader policy toward Syria is.
“There are clearly lots and lots of questions that the general wasn't prepared to answer,” Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member
Mark Warner (D-Va.) told reporters.
Sen.
John Cornyn (R-Texas) — the No. 2 Senate Republican — told reporters the administration could provide additional briefings but hadn’t currently laid out a broader strategy.
“We don’t have the benefit of a larger strategy. The same reason I think the administration difficulty coming up with a strategy, because it’s very very complicated,” he said when asked what he had learned about the administration’s strategy.
Cornyn added that there were “discussions” about the legal authority being used in Syria and whether the administration’s main target is President Bashar Assad government's or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“We ... need a strategy to figure out what is our goals in Syria,” he said. “Is our goal just to defeat ISIS or is our goal to change the regime, and if there is policy to change the regime what comes next?”
so he called it off and said if the republicans want me to bomb syria then they need to authorize it (as you can see from trump's action and obama's own libya action the president doesn't really need congressional approval) so they have some skin in the game. republicans backed down and said "
nah we don't support that." obama was like gotcha bytches 
i'ma take putin up on his offer.
