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

[DirkGently]

73. Nonsense semantic dodging. Vietnam was never declared.

You want to argue it wasn't a war on the basis that official declarations are the definition of war?

Go ahead. Good luck getting anyone to think that's an honest position.

You can make all the distinctions you want between big wars and little ones, world wars and regional wars.

What you can't successfully do is pretend that silly semantic distinctions render a military attack by one country upon another something other than war.

More importantly, you cannot honestly maintain that the objections to the premise of war don't apply except to where you want them to. The U.S. military attacking a foreign country is something people take universal exception to on common grounds.

We will be killing people in a violent military attack.

We will be putting American lives and interests at risk.

We will subject the country to judgment on the basis that it IS war to conduct a military attack on a sovereign nation.

We will be expending resources and personnel and committing the same to an unknown future, which in past exercises claimed not to be war, such as Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, have proven to not only be "war," but to be large, costly, badly chosen wars.

Your argument boils down to "War is only sometimes war, and we'll let the people conducting violent military attacks define when that is."

Death is death.

Blood is blood.

War IS war.