Matthew Dowd  on Sunday expressed his frustration over the United States going to war against ISIS without President Obama officially declaring war.

However, he said on the Powerhouse Roundtable on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos that this is "not really fundamentally about President Obama" and that the "debate is way long overdue:"

This has been a debate that should have happened over the last 30 years. It should've happened with President Bush, it should've happened with President Clinton related to Bosnia, it should've happened with President Reagan, it should've happened with previous President Bush. 

The idea that we are going to war and never declaring war is, I think, abysmal. 

Dowd blamed Congress for failing to have the proper debate in light of putting more troops in harm's way. He used as an example ABC's Martha Raddatz, who previously ran a report from a powerful U.S. aircraft carrier:

The fact that we can put our troops in harm's way -- we actually have now lost 7,000 troops since 9/11, twice as many as we lost on 9/11, but we're still not willing to have a conversation, a discussion, and a debate about whether or not we should declare war. And pointing to the fact that Martha was sitting on an aircraft carrier that's sitting in the sea that is more powerful than nearly every other country in the world -- just that one aircraft carrier -- and we can't have this debate in Congress?