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Takket

(21,607 posts) Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:20 PM Oct 2019

Are we technically "at war" with ISIS?

and if so, can the case be made that by knowingly helping ISIS by abandoning the Kurds keeping them imprisoned, could drumpf by susceptible to a charge of treason for helping the enemy?

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Are we technically "at war" with ISIS? (Original Post) Takket Oct 2019 OP

Yes. n/t Mr.Bill Oct 2019 #1

Technicality were at war everyone and no-one. ugh Kurt V. Oct 2019 #2

Someone please correct me, but I do not think there has been a declaration Ferrets are Cool Oct 2019 #3

By the USA, you may well be right. I heard the last official declaration by anyone was the USSR muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #5

Isis didn't Trump destroy them? doc03 Oct 2019 #4

+1000 dewsgirl Oct 2019 #10

We have not legally been at war with anyone Miguelito Loveless Oct 2019 #6

Correction: we haven't *declared* war since 1942 TwilightZone Oct 2019 #11

I stand corrected Miguelito Loveless Oct 2019 #12

ISIS was never a recognised country, so *technically* no country was ever at war with it (nt) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #7

Several Americans have gone to prison for "aiding and abetting" ISIS and Al-Qaeda et al ArtTownsend Oct 2019 #8

No. former9thward Oct 2019 #9

Mr.Bill

(24,312 posts)

1. Yes. n/t

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:24 PM

Oct 2019

Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)

2. Technicality were at war everyone and no-one. ugh

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:26 PM

Oct 2019

Ferrets are Cool

(21,109 posts)

3. Someone please correct me, but I do not think there has been a declaration

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:30 PM

Oct 2019

of war since 1942. Declaration of war with Rumania (now Romania; passed June 4, 1942)

muriel_volestrangler

(101,347 posts)

5. By the USA, you may well be right. I heard the last official declaration by anyone was the USSR

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:32 PM

Oct 2019

on Japan in 1945.

doc03

(35,361 posts)

4. Isis didn't Trump destroy them?

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:30 PM

Oct 2019

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

10. +1000

Reply to doc03 (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 07:31 PM

Oct 2019

Miguelito Loveless

(4,468 posts)

6. We have not legally been at war with anyone

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:33 PM

Oct 2019

since 1942.

1945 would also be the last time we won a war as well.

TwilightZone

(25,473 posts)

11. Correction: we haven't *declared* war since 1942

Reply to Miguelito Loveless (Reply #6)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 07:50 PM

Oct 2019

We were *at* war until 1945. Opinions vary on the exact date, but the two dates most often noted are August 14th, 1945, the date of the armistice, and September 2nd, 1945, the date Japan formally surrendered.

Miguelito Loveless

(4,468 posts)

12. I stand corrected

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 11:57 PM

Oct 2019

muriel_volestrangler

(101,347 posts)

7. ISIS was never a recognised country, so *technically* no country was ever at war with it (nt)

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:33 PM

Oct 2019

ArtTownsend

(439 posts)

8. Several Americans have gone to prison for "aiding and abetting" ISIS and Al-Qaeda et al

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:45 PM

Oct 2019

Just sayin....

former9thward

(32,064 posts)

9. No.

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:51 PM

Oct 2019

Congress has refused to fulfill its Article One Constitutional duties and authorize war. The last official war declaration was made in early 1942 against eastern European countries that sided with the Nazis. Since then they have surrendered their war making powers to the President.

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