You keep going back to almost ancient times, WWII was 65 years ago, do you think that a rifle behind every tree kept the USSR from taking over the world and eventually stopped them, and ended their conquest/domination of the planet, do you want to offer that as the answer to China of 20 years in the future, do you think that America would even survive such a childlike isolation, do we even want to live in fortress America as the enemy shapes the world in military, trade, alliances and conquest, until they have us cut off isolated, and with no options left except to die in place as we fight to the death and destroy our own families, cities, culture, infrastructure, peoples and nation, and lose anyway to an enemy that already owns and occupies Mexico, and Canada, and Hawaii, and Alaska?
As far as the National Guard, I was in a high speed Special Operations Guard Unit, you cannot keep a large number of such time consuming units manned, because they are closer to active duty in required devotion and training time, in other words, they are not 2 days a month, 2 weeks a year and only localized training, for one thing they require a lot of foreign and domestic travel. You don’t just “rotate” military specialties from different units, to different units either.
You assume that I would intend to keep the “one weekend a month and two weeks a year” schedule in effect.
As for the “childlike isolation” argument I have to counter that if we wish our government to keep their dicks out of our affairs it behooves us to be much the same on the international scene: keep our dicks out of other’s business.
Cuba is a good example of how America absolutely fucked things up internationally by playing “Big Brother” to Cuba and basically alienated them by refusing to allow them to “sink or swim” on their own; that was probably the biggest reason that Cuba became communist. Our current troubles in Afghanistan are EXACTLY traceable to our own foreign policy from years ago: when we pledged to support them in rebelling against Russian rule/invasion we embellished [to the point of deception, IMO] what our support would be and they had heavy losses because they overplayed it relying/hoping on [active] American involvement that never really materialized.
As a Country America lies: to its citizens (Social Security will be optional, there aren’t any death panels or rationing in Obamacare); to its allies; to everyone... and then we have the audacity to think that “America is great”? If America was truly about Truth and Justice, then yes America IS Great — but America is not about that, at least not right now. Right-now right-now America is about spending far more than it makes, it is about pushing around those smaller and weaker (look at the difference between tax ‘misunderstandings’ WRT Rangle vs. Andrew Stack or David Koresh*), it is about “Because we can” and not “Because it is RIGHT.”
The American people are, I think, fed up with the law being applied one-sidedly; as if being a politician or bureaucrat immunizes you from having to follow the law that everyone else has to follow. (Or using such immunity laws to, in effect, get around having to comply with the Constitution.) I believe THAT is the reason that the turnover rate against incumbents this past election was so great; will it make a difference? I do not know; certainly if we “go back to sleep” it will not.
*The whole Waco incident started over a TAX DISPUTE, which should have been settled in civil court (the government claiming things weren’t proper, Koresh claiming that he had the proper licensing and paid the proper taxes); it ended up being justified/spun that Koresh and his group were a bunch of perverts: as if being a pervert [and possibly violating some OTHER law] nullifies your rights to trial and defense...