We have been "fighting" a war of some kind every day since December 7, 1941.

[phantom power]

"In times of war, the law falls silent"

by digby

That's right. And Justice Scalia says that's perfectly normal...

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And that means that when you are engaged in an endless Global War on Oceania ... er ... Terror, pretty much anything goes, right? Funny how that works.

We have been "fighting" a war of some kind every day since December 7, 1941. Our entire government is organized around that fact. We have seen the government exposed and excused for repeatedly violating constitutional principles in order to "keep us safe" from the Axis powers communist menace and now the terrorist menace for over 70 years. WWII had an explicit end, the Cold War simply petered out after 40 years or so. The War on Terror, being as it isn't a fight against nations or even an ideology but rather a fight against a specific tactic will go on forever if they want it to. This is the basic challenge as long as the United States' self-designated role is to be the global hegemon.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-times-of-war-law-falls-silent.html

[brush]

1. We should go back a little further even

We've actually been involved in wars, coups, overthrows, assassinations and/or occupations in countries around the world for their resources since the 1890s when we sent gunboats to back ex-pat American planters in their overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy to gain access to more acreage for their crops. And that doesn't even include the Indian wars.

Steven Kinzer documents it in his book: "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq"

[Lurks Often]

2. There has always been at least one war going since forever

it's one of the things the human race does.

[Octafish]

3. ''Money trumps peace.'' -- George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

And then he laughs.

The very words of George W Bush on Feb. 14, 2007, uttered at a press conference in which not a single of the callow, cowed press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.

I remember Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention.

As for his Poppy: Bush Sr told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

[libdem4life]

4. Here is another opinion...120 since the Civil War...The Crusade toward American Empire.

http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html