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minus-squareShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 month agoCongress functionally ceded it’s war authority with the war powers act after 9/11. Anything that can be tagged as ‘terrorism’ lets the president act unilaterally. If I’m not mistaken though we haven’t had a proper declared war since WW2.
minus-squareTheBeardmancer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 month agoThis. There’s a reason they’ve suddenly coined and repeatedly abused the term “narco-terrorist” because they get a free pass with no oversight.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat term has been abused for decades now. These guys didn’t coin anything, they are just bringing back a rather nonsense trope.
minus-squareShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States Afraid not, that was pursued under the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Resolution’
Congress functionally ceded it’s war authority with the war powers act after 9/11. Anything that can be tagged as ‘terrorism’ lets the president act unilaterally. If I’m not mistaken though we haven’t had a proper declared war since WW2.
This. There’s a reason they’ve suddenly coined and repeatedly abused the term “narco-terrorist” because they get a free pass with no oversight.
That term has been abused for decades now. These guys didn’t coin anything, they are just bringing back a rather nonsense trope.
Vietnam?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States
Afraid not, that was pursued under the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Resolution’