BTW, you didn't address the content of my post, which supports the author's thesis. Where would you rather fight? On you own turf, on on the enemy's?
Where would I rather fight? What a ridiculous question. Since I am not a coward and love my freedom, if someone means me or my family harm, I would not send a 19-year old girl in my place; I would be happy to face them where ever 'they' so choose.
Though I might be a little upset if the people I hired to keep the barbarians out, let them in the front door.
What do you think MacArthur was talking about here?
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
- General Douglas MacArthur
"A Soldier Speaks: Public Papers and Speeches of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur," (1965); Nation, August 17, 1957
Now, do you collect a gubmint check, in the spirit of full disclosure of course?