[CWuestefeld]

the government shouldn't be itching to get itself in the business of retaliating against foreign attacks on non-government entities.

At the end of the day, the reason the government exists is to protect the people and their property.

I agree that it's alarming that the US is doing this. But my alarm is because there's no Constitutional declaration of war, or even any apparent invocation of the War Powers Act.

[shitgoose]

I always thought that the reason the government exists is to collect taxes and spend them in the most inefficient way. Governments go to war to protect their cash flow, i.e. taxes.