A bi-partisan group of Senators have written a compromise resolution authorizing the use of force in Syria. Politico: A new use-of-force resolution for Syria sets a 60-day deadline, with one 30-day extension possible, for President Barack Obama to launch military strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad -- and it will also bar the involvement of U.S. ground forces in Syria. The revised resolution was crafted by Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman and ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, following several days of negotiations. The panel is set to vote Wednesday on the proposal. A president can get in an awful lot of trouble in 90 days. And while the resolution prohibits ground forces except in an "emergency," Garance Franke-Ruta, writing in the Atlantic, sees the possibility of escalation: But I wonder if there's not also a logic of escalation that comes into play now that Obama has requested Congressional...(Read Full Post)