So you refuse to answer my questions or discuss the issue, huh? You revert to name-calling instead. That’s typical.
But really—if you think it’s OK for our Armed Forces to police the world, why should it bother you to Defend Your Neighborhood in like manner? It’s the same principle, therefore if one is OK, or if one is nonsensical & futile, so is the other as well.
What Deb doesn’t take into account is that the government (originally, anyway) derived its legitimate power on the authority of We, The People. It was tasked to do several things in our names and on our behalf. BUT NO LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT can legitimately do ANYTHING as our agent that we ourselves cannot properly do for ourselves. We, in America, created government, as its principals, to be our agent in certain matters. NO AGENT MAY PROPERLY DO anything his principal may not properly do, nor may that agent exceed his authority to do MORE THAN he is hired to do.
And We, the People, may NOT properly wander into others’ homes, staying there, eating them out of house and home, in the name of protecting them, nor may we PREEMPTIVELY burn out the neighbor down the block, then shoot him and his family, just because he MIGHT do something bad.
Somehow these distinctions are lost on a lot of folks who call themselves “conservative,” yet are anything BUT that when it comes to making war. We have a Constitutional Republic, NOT an Empire. We would do well to remember that.