Jay Honeck writes:

Really? Tell that to the folks who attacked us, we taxpayers who are
footing the enormous bill, and to the mothers of our dead.

The smart ones already know, and the stupid ones refuse to listen.

The United States routinely gets involved in military actions at the whim of
whoever is President at the time, and only rarely is war actually declared
(which requires an act of Congress, literally).

The folks who attacked the U.S. were terrorists. If they had the means to
wage an actual war, rest assured, they would have done so. Terrorism is the
last resort of those who don't have a standing military at their disposal.