Whatabout whatabout. You know you’re just mucking up holding the worst current people accountable for repeating history - repeating and causing prescient problems that haven’t been as dire since WW 2 right? You know Trump’s administration is undoing 50+ years of human rights progress right? It was unfinished and he set it back like a game of snakes and ladders. Except it isn’t. It’s real people’s lives and you’re not helping anything.But also comparable to the Obama administration’s unapproved war in Libya or the Biden administration’s attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen. If we reach beyond very recent examples, Thomas Jefferson sent the US Navy and a bunch of Marines to attack pirates in Northern Africa, and did so without a congressional declaration of war. Right or wrong, Trump isn’t doing anything new with these choices, which are all well within the range of long-established political norms.
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Why the Department of War Has Changed Names Through History
The Department of War was overhauled in 1947 by Harry Truman.www.history.com
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