By all means, protect those men!
You said: “By all means, protect those men!”
I don’t know if you were being sarcastic or not. But yes I would protect those men if they were good men who were willing to protect me.
It is why I love the American soldier who protects me now, and sometimes dies for it, and I also love the men who fought the Civil War and died to end slavery (whatever else they thought at the time I don’t care about really, many of them had no especial love for black people per se) but they laid down their lives for others, it gets no higher than that.