article_snippet: (CNN)In the past eight months, ISIS has seeded ISIS in some dozen countries around the globe.
article_snippet: the spread of ISIS raises key questions about whether these new affiliates signal an intensification of the threat of terror.
article_snippet: the spread of ISIS also has important implications for the debate in Congress over Obama's request for a new authorization to fight ISIS.
article_snippet: Of most concern are the groups that have pledged allegiance to ISIS, since this allows ISIS some measure of command and control over terrorist organizations and also means that these groups will likely more closely align with ISIS goal of creating a caliphate across the Muslim world as soon as feasible and use the most reprehensible of tactics to do so.
article_snippet: What could this mean for the wider jihadist terrorist movement?
article_snippet: The increasing globalization of ISIS' raises some interesting questions for the Obama administration and for Congress.
article_snippet: Last month Obama put forward a proposal for a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force specifically targeting ISIS'.
article_snippet: Obama's AUMF proposal mentions combating ISIS' in ISIS' heartland of Syria and IraqIraq, but ISIS' doesn't mention the dozen other countries where ISIS' now has a presence or foothold.
article_snippet: Interventionist Republicans will likely want to see an AUMF that specifically targets other groups allied to ISIS' that are outside of Syria and IraqIraq.
article_snippet: Many Democrats will be uncomfortable about such an expansion.
article_snippet: The ball is now in Congress court to decide how geographically wide the scope of the fight against ISIS' should be.
article_snippet: It will be an interesting debate: on one side, those who want to prolong indefinitely what is already America's longest war, against jihadist terrorist groups like ISIS' that have affiliates from Algeria to Afghanistan; and, on the other, those who want to circumscribe America's longest war both in time and in space.
article_snippet: Given the fact that a broadly written AUMF that was passed in the days after 9/11 has allowed the United States to conduct military operations in half a dozen Muslim countries over the course of the past 14 years, a new authorization that specifies both a sunset provision and also a specific geographic scope would be a useful check on executive power.
article_snippet: And such an authorization could be amended if a substantial new threat from an ISIS' affiliate emerges.
highlights_snippet: Boko Haram says the spread of ISIS poses questions for Obama, Congress in deciding future of fight against terrorism .