Defending “our freedoms” ... where?
If it isn’t in the continental US I’m a little skeptical on that. Not denigrating his service, don’t get me wrong, and I’m not making some Ivory Tower pronouncement here, I got deployed to the Balkans, when I got home there were all kinds of “Refugees” here. It’s just a big load of horseshit as far as I’m concerned. Must be a Pony in there somewhere.
One can get so cynical that one couldn’t be told from the occupants of a dog pound.
Warding off enemies before they get here averts having to put the country on a full wartime footing, with its busybodiness aplenty.
Okinawa and Kaneohe.