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Originally posted by onetime2
Isn't that the whole point of having a military? Should the goal be to make it more difficult for the DOD to wage wars?
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The National Security Act of 1947 renamed the Department of War to the Department of Defense. And *that* is the point of having our military: to defend us, and our Constitution. In our current system, it isn't harder to wage war, but it is harder to sustain the political will to keep an unpopular war going, which is as it should be.
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