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Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va., introduced legislation Wednesday to authorize limited use of military force against the Islamic State﻿, in response to President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S. strategy for dealing with the ﻿ terror group.

Islamic State ﻿ poses a serious and imminent threat to stability in Iraq, Syria and regional neighbors, said Kaine, a member of the Armed Services Committee and chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs.

“They are better resourced than any terrorist organization we have faced, in terms of the amount of money and capacity that they have,” Kaine said in a phone interview.

However, he also said that some of the limited airstrikes that the president undertook in August “slowed their momentum down and demonstrated that they are not invulnerable.”

The ﻿proposal supports Obama’s ﻿key pillars: a multinational effort to destroy the Islamic State﻿; the use of force in a campaign of airstrikes against the group ﻿ in Iraq and Syria; and backing ﻿vetted forces in these nations, including Iraqi security forces, Kurdish fighters and non-terrorist opposition groups.