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minus-squareZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 days agoI’ve asked the same question in another thread, but was this war approved by congress? Isn’t this illegal?
minus-squareShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·6 days 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-up22·6 days 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-up2·5 days 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-up6·6 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States Afraid not, that was pursued under the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Resolution’
I’ve asked the same question in another thread, but was this war approved by congress? Isn’t this illegal?
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’