I think that the Department of Defense should go back to its original name: War Department. It would be far more honest, and the State Department could actually go back to diplomacy and working as a Peace Department.

But of course, we all know that the State Department is full of Commie sissies like Colin Powell -- Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon proved that.

I also have the strange notion that if the US is going to commit troops to combat, to a "war", it should be declared by Congress, as per the Constitution, and not given to the President as some sort of "authority to use force." If the President thinks a war is necessary, let him ask Congress for it -- and for the powers that would be necessary, including a draft and rationing.