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Re:Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Waste... by ModernMech on Sunday August 15, 2021 @08:58AM (#28188425)
Wars in the last 40 years include:

- Lebanon, 1983 (Reagan)

- Persian Gulf, 1991 (Bush I)

- Afghanistan/Iraq, 2001/2003 (Bush II)

Then in the past 40 years, wars were not started under Clinton, Obama, and Trump.

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Re:Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Waste... by partizanos on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:21AM (#28188565)
Add Yugoslavia too in the 90s which started by Clinton, Syria intervention which started during Obama
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Re:Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Waste... by ModernMech on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:43AM (#28188698)
In the US, wars are started by Congress, not the President. The conflicts I listed are the only wars authorized by Congress over the last 40 years. We can bring other conflicts into the discussion, but that’s a different standard than “war”.
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