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billy
Having a reliable military force to protect our country and react to attacks is far different from being a military power who polices the world.
Seriously, do you believe that if we would have stayed out of meddling with the Middle East to begin with that things would have gone just as they have? We have actually been part of the reason the have been unable to adjust as needed. We kept getting involved when we should not have, because we were a military power and wanted to show that we were.
I am not against having a good, reliable military force that is ready to protect this country, but more and more we have grown well beyond that and are using our military power to do what we have no business doing at all.
I truly believe that is what was feared by our founding fathers when they made the second amendment. You can almost read the fear they had in that opening 'A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state'. They show that they knew the danger of a strong military power and did not with to see the country they created go down this very wrong path.
posted by
kooka_lives
on January 29, 2006 at 9:27 AM
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Kooka, though the founding fathers did have initial starry dreams about
a citizen soldiery...and the occasional suggestion (Madison's) to rent our warships from other nations it became very obvious early in the revolution that only a standing Army of regulars would win the war. And make no mistake that the founding fathers wanted to win...their fortunes and likely their lives were at stake. Read His Excellency about George Washington to understand this dichotomy better.
Additionally, once we got past the Revolution we tried the small standing military again and again and were constantly whipped into a frenzy to put something together at the outbreak of each new war. Wars have never been averted by a small standing military.
posted by
FreeManWalking
on January 29, 2006 at 9:11 AM
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good job
ralph agrees with you too
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 28, 2006 at 6:10 PM
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I would be happier with some isolationism about now.
I have never been all that enthusiastic about the Iraq war (believe it or not) . . . .
posted by
JanesOpinion
on January 28, 2006 at 5:04 PM
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This is How I Understand it Also..
I think it started on a smaller level where as individuals we cannot tend to our own business, so we insert ourselves in the business of others... Nice post!
posted by
Dr_JPT
on January 28, 2006 at 4:15 PM
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