Hmm, perhaps Ermey was creatively quoted?
I will second your thought. I want to hear that from R. L. Ermey with my own two very old ears. I just can’t figure him to say that.
I don't know. I just don't get an impression about him that he is a lib so I suspect he's just uninformed.
That being said, Ermey did rise to fame as a Kubrick tool. Kubrick was all about creating mistrust in western societies against their military protectors ( Paths of Glory, Strangelove, FMJ ), and now he's giving interviews to radical anti-military activist Bryant Jordan.
I suspect he's just naive about these things, though.