I propose the War Amendment to the Constitution

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Exactly

World War II was the last one in which the U.S. itself was actually under threat. Even the Korean War is kind of muddy.

The rest of the wars and interventions were strictly for U.S. corporate interests.

The cover story about the Vietnam War being for the purposes of saving Southeast Asia from Communism never quite rang true, but the motives seemed puzzling otherwise. Then, just a couple of years ago, there were reports of oil fields among the Spratly Islands between Vietnam and the Philippines, and I thought, "Uh-huh."

And no, 9/11 doesn't count, because it wasn't a COUNTRY that perpetrated that atrocity. It was a gang of criminals who happened to be present in a country that offered to turn them over to us.