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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe greatest trick Obama ever pulled was convincing the world America isn't still at war
This is the new reality of war: As long as the White House doesnt admit the United States is at war, were all supposed to pretend as if thats true. This ruse is not just the work of the president. Members of Congress, who return to work this week, are just as guilty as Barack Obama in letting the public think were Definitely Not at War, from Afghanistan and Somalia to the new war with Isis in Iraq and Syria and beyond.
Thirteen years on, the near limitless war authorization Congress passed for the Afghanistan war remains in place, with no sign that Congress wants to even debate revoking it. This is what will allow US troops to continue fighting, despite the mission supposedly being formally over. Just a month before Obama made his farcical announcement last week, he signed a secret order to ensure US troops continue to engage in combat missions against various militant groups in Afghanistan for all of 2015.
Another place the United States is Definitely Not at War? Pakistan, where, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the US conducted multiple drone strikes between Christmas and New Years Eve, killing at least nine people. We dont know who died, but the Associated Press assured us they were militants, despite the US governments definition of militant having been manipulated beyond comprehension.
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(52,317 posts)we're america. we're always at war. have been since december 8, 1941. earlier if you count lend-lease as an act of war.
as george carlin said, it's what we're good at.
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