And Old Salt, even though he's an academy grad, still doesn't understand what treaties are for, or why they are important. And doesn't understand that yes, wars should all be the same in the US.
Was the US or its treaty bound allies attacked? If the answer is yes, then we're supporting that side in a war, and we go to Congress to vote for said war.
If not? We should stay out of it. This sh(t is literally in our Constitution....power to sign treaties. If it's important to "support" a war, as you say? Here's how it works: we sign a treaty, and ratify it. Then we're on the hook for this "important" country.
We stopped doing that, and started calling things "police actions" and other such lies so that military geniuses like Old Salt could end run the Constitution based on what "some guy in a think tank" thinks, rather than what our elected Congress thinks. This makes it REAALLY easy to foment and enable war everywhere on the globe.
And this entire line of thinking has led to nonstop war since WWII, while our own kids can't add and subtract because we're blowing all their money in places that these same kids couldn't find on a map if you gave them their entire lifetimes to do it. Sweet!
But sure, OS has this all figured out. And I'm the stupid one here.
And yes, your evaluations are 100% based on the party in the White House. 100%. And there isn't a single poster here who doesn't know this.
But sure, I'm making it all up. Oh, and you're telling me what I think....that's an Old Salt no-no, remember?