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It seems to me that if we are going to go with that approach then we would need to start actually declaring wars again.
by harimau777 6y ago
It seems to me that if we are going to go with that approach then we would need to start actually declaring wars again.
- dragonwriter 6y agoWe never stopped declaring war; declarations of war don't require particular magic words; the Afghanistan and Iraq AUMFs, for instance, were each valid conditional (and, in the former case, broadly open-ended) declarations of war.
- tipsysquid 6y agoWhen in the last 30 years did the US Congress declare an act of war?
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- dragonwriter 6y ago> When in the last 30 years did the US Congress declare an act of war? The grandparent post is a single sentence and identifies two instances that answer that question (they aren't a full answer because there are more examples in that timeframe.)