Ultimately you can’t have liberty at home without a secure nation.
You can’t have liberty at home if you’re always, ALWAYS at war. War is the most expensive enterprise government can engage in. It runs up deficits, debt, inflation, and grows the size of government more than anything else.
War is sometimes necessary, but if we’re always at war, kiss your freedoms - and your pocketbook - goodbye.
True. I’m most afraid of people who advocate war without a realistic strategy for winning and getting out. Paul is absolutely right about that. Bush’s “nation building” strategy was based on the erroneous notion that the desire to live in a free and democratic society with a central government is universal. It isn’t. We could have stayed in Iraq 25 years and the same thing would have happened when we left.