[higgmeister]

No offense, but when was the last time the U.S. military defended anyone’s freedom here in the U.S.? That was the whole point of my historical reference there.

Maybe I missed the media coverage of the Army protecting barbers in Michigan or the Marines guarding beachgoers in New York who were threatened with arrest by totalitarian thugs.

So, we do away with the U. S. Military and then get invaded by ________ (fill in the blank).   Just what are you trying to say here?

[rollo tomasi]

Can't speak for Alberta's Child, however, optimizing the standing army to the point of maintaining technical prowess while shrinking regiments to maintain a domestic defense without the military welfare State in tow along with eradicating the budgetary (And cannon fodder of awful foreign policies) bloat that entices Repub as well as Dem politicians, NeoCons, globalists, and those who desire further the world police meme (Please don't buy the "national interests" canard, that is bad propaganda) going.

As for the rest, exercise the assembly option found in the First Amendment and allow actual militias (Weekend Warriors) that not only scare foreign adversaries, but our "benevolent" government as well.

[Alberta's Child]

I hate to break this to you, but this country has been facing an invasion for decades ... and the military was nowhere to be found. From my profile page:

A government that pisses away thousands of lives and trillions of dollars on military campaigns in Islamic sh!t-holes halfway around the world while facilitating an invasion of Third World peasants here at home has no moral claim on any loyalty from its citizens anymore.