LizzieMaine
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We no longer have a War Department. What we have instead is the kinder, gentler Department of Defense. So remember that when you're obliterated by a drone strike, we're doing it defensively, and with sincere regret.
The Defense Department was so named in 1949 as a bit of double-plus-good Cold War newspeak, implemented two months after "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published in the United States. Somebody either had a sense of humor or no sense of irony whatsoever.