I sure as hell would prefer to avoid open warfare. So did Chamberlain. So did Slick Willy when the Islamofascists attacked US interests 17 times under his watch and he turned away from it to perpetuate the illusion of ‘peace.’
I want future generations to live in a free country. If those who hate America (Leftists) or who parasite off it risk that freedom and the very existence of our country and our elected representatives do nothing to stop the desuetude of our country, what would you suggest, sitting by and watching tv and knitting? Think about the ramifications of American becoming ‘just another country’ when there are so many very violent tyrants out there just chomping at the bit to take over — oppressively.
How good will you feel knowing that your eternal soul is safely on its way to paradise yet you have allowed millions to be executed by tyrants, as it happened in the USSR and is happening in Communist China?
There are two types of violence: righteous and unrighteous. Unrighteous is when a tyrant uses force to control the people God created to be free. Righteous violence is using whatever force is necessary to prevent that enslavement, that oppression, that tyranny.
So to answer you bluntly: if tyrants force me to use force against them, I have no fear that my soul is damned. I consider it not only righteous, but my God-given obligation to defend freedom for myself and for others.
Pats talking about taxes, immigration and trade, and the long term effects, not about an invading Soviet Army.