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Title: How About Truth Regarding the Department of “Defense”?
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
URL Source: https://www.fff.org/2018/12/20/how- ... ing-the-department-of-defense/
Published: Dec 20, 2018
Author: Jacob G. Hornberger
Post Date: 2018-12-26 07:32:48 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 475
Comments: 5
With all the born-again fervor for truth among the mainstream press within the context of the Donald Trump regime, would it be too much to ask for the truth regarding the U.S. Department of “Defense.” I mean, come on, there is no way that what U.S. troops have been doing overseas for the past 70 years has anything to do with the defense of the United States. Instead, it has all been about empire and intervention. So, while we are on the subject of truth, how about if we change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of Empire and Intervention? Just consider all the millions (yes, millions!) of people in foreign lands who the Pentagon has killed since World War II. We’re talking about Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Guatemalans, Iranians, Chileans, Afghans, Yemenis, Libyans, Syrians, Chinese, Congolese, Cubans, and many, many more. It’s important to note that not one of those people was ever invading the United States. They were all “over there” when the Pentagon killed them. Why, even the 9/11 attacks were terrorist retaliation for U.S. interventionism abroad rather than an attempt to invade and conquer the United States. Thus, there is no way that the Pentagon can truthfully say that they were defending the United States when its troops killed those millions of people in faraway lands. The truth is that the troops were defending the “right” of the U.S. government to intervene in the affairs of other nations and to defend U.S. military installations in faraway lands. What would a true Department of Defense look like? It would look like Switzerland. Notice that the Swiss government doesn’t have a military death machine killing people on a regular basis in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Afghanistan, and anywhere else in the world. The Swiss government and the Swiss citizenry are limited strictly to defending their nation from the possibility of an invasion. Everything in Switzerland is oriented toward defense. Most every citizen is heavily armed and knows where to report in the event of an emergency. Obstructions are set up all across the nation to interfere with an invading force. The army’s plans are centered entirely on defense. With the Swiss, there is no foreign empire or foreign intervention. No interventions in the Korean War, or the Vietnam War, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No coups, no kidnappings, no torture, no assassinations. No installation of or partnerships with dictatorial regimes. Just defense. And notice something important about Switzerland: No one jacks with the Swiss. No one would be stupid enough to invade Switzerland. Even Nazi Germany understood that principle. Thus, a true Department of Defense would be limited to doing just that — defending the United States. That’s clearly not what the Department of “Defense” is doing or has been doing since its name was changed in 1949 from the “National Military Establishment” to the “Department of Defense.” In an era of born-again devotion to the truth, a good place to begin would be by changing the name of the Department of “Defense” to the Department of Empire and Intervention. Better yet, let’s keep the name Department of Defense and restore America’s founding principles of non-interventionism and a limited-government republic to our land.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
You got it right it is about empire but what does knowing that do for you? It was the spanish then the french then the british and then america. Century by century, one nation after another, and this century China
So how has our "empire" grown in the last 70 years? What do we have to show for it -- if we are truly building our empire? What a load of isolationist bullshit.
Your posted article on the Mattis Maximum war hawks replacement candidates Cotton & Keane seems to have disappeared, has been deleted and swept under the rug. Truth is treason in an empire of lies, comrade. Must protect the Military Industrial Complex and USA World Police.
Message from Stone the warmonger chickenhawk: Both Leading Candidates to Replace Mattis are Maximum War Hawks I don't give a damn so I deleted it.
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. No, this is not isolationist bullshit but recognition that you grew and now contract. Your empire once extended across the pacific and included the phillippines but times have changed soon you will have russia on you door step where once you could dictate to nations in the americas
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
what U.S. troops have been doing overseas for the past 70 years has anything to do with the defense of the United States. Instead, it has all been about empire and intervention.
#3. To: Deckard, libertysflame extinguished, free Fred Mertz (#0)
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
Your posted article on the Mattis Maximum war hawks replacement candidates Cotton & Keane seems to have disappeared, has been deleted and swept under the rug.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
#5. To: misterwhite (#2)
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