Comment on Who decides when the US goes to "war"
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 months agoTo your other point, yes, I used the word “just” when referring to the president’s decision. The reason being, it is solely his decision, as the highest ranking leader of the Department of Defense (DoD), to implement the military in “campaigns” across the globe. He does not need anyone’s permission to deploy us.
Congress in Iraq 2003, authorized before, rather than after. While the President could unilaterally have ordered an invasion with only a short term of authority, he did not. Therefore, the historical example provided was not an example of the President acting without backing of Congress.
he’d have to pull us back within 30 days
90 days (60 for operations + 30 for orderly withdrawl).
as military members, operating in an official capacity, we were required to use the “correct terminology”
The name of the medal was official. I’m going going to re-litigate the entire subject, but if your point is that there was an aversion to using the word “war” in public, that simply wasn’t so.
I usually don’t have to deep dive into the specifics about these things with civilians
Perhaps an assumption?
cobysev@lemmy.world 5 months ago
All right, now I’m convinced you’re just a burner account for my wife. You’re still arguing semantics, distracting with irrelevant information, and are willingly misunderstanding instead of contributing to the actual conversation. Looks like you care more about arguing than having an actual productive discussion, so it’s not really worth my time to try and rehash this in even simpler terms for you.
But I will condede, I meant 90 days, not 30. That was an honest slip of the fingers.