Of all JK's lies, this one is the most disturbing: "The President Is Not Asking You To Go To War"

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46. Making up brand-new definitions

for words is a very modern thing, and very popular with those who don't care for truth smacking them upside the head, but the definition of war does not depend on a declaration - or "boots on the ground".

We will never declare war - we haven't since 1941 and we're not going to start now - so that's out. As for "boots", what do you call the sailors and the airmen who will be involved in this action? Wind-up toys?

At the start of the 19th century, the rifled musket was invented. It took longer to load, but it allowed soldiers to shoot people from much farther away than the standard musket. Technically, this meant that a rifleman was in a safer position than other soldiers, because they could discharge their weapons from a distance that a musket ball couldn't reach.

If you had suggested that they were not engaged in war because they were not eyeball to eyeball with the enemy, they would have spit in your face.

Distance is not a measure of conflict. When an "operator" at Creech AFB, Nevada guides a drone over Yemen and pushes the button to drop a bomb, he or she is involved in a war against an "enemy" in a sovereign nation.

When a sailor pushes the button to launch a Tomahawk missile at Syria, they may be "safe" in the Mediterranean - but they are still at war.