I’d go with Bob Turner’s statement. He’s a longtime friend of mine, a two-career Vietnam veteran (soldier and diplomatic staff), one of the US’s top scholars on law and war, and perhaps the top scholar on Thomas Jefferson and the wrongful reporting that TJ fathered a child with a slave named Sally Hemmings (it was his brother, re DNA tests).
Our Vietnam Veterans for Factual History (VVFH.org) just held a press conference in DC last week in which we discussed some of these issues re the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the circumstances around it re going to war against No. Vietnam.
There is, as Bob says, a major difference between going to war against an established state as opposed to taking counter-terrorism actions against a genocidal bunch of maniacs who have also threatened to attack our country.
I would add the following: Continue to kill all the Islamic Jihadist bastards and let the buzzards and lawyers sort them out in the sand graveyards of Iraq.
And I agree with you 100 percent