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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Defense of Freedom
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 20:24:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 20:24:47 1985
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> 
>      The answer is obvious.  There are certain groups whose only goal is to
> destroy the United States as a Nation, seize our property, and subject our
> people to slavery.  One only has to pick up newspaper to find out who they
> are.  
> 

I can't think of any except perhaps a few fringe groups with no real power.
You might say the USSR, but their policy towards us is much as ours is
towards them - blow them to smithereens if they attack us.  Russia has
a lot of expanding to do before it gets to North America.

Although nobody has seriously threatened us since 1814 (the end of the War
of 1812), unless you count Pearl Harbor, we have invaded almost 
every country in North America, some more
than once, and quite a few in the rest of the world.  Maybe those invasions
were justified, but I doubt that all - or even most - were.

DOD's mission is to defend the US and AMERICAN INTERESTS AROUND THE GLOBE.
I've got no problem with defending the U.S.  If we're invaded you might
find me in your unit.  But 'American interests' is a code word for the
American global military empire - which I definitely don't like.  I also
don't like the habit of going to war without the constitutionally mandated
Congression declaration of war.  I feel that fighting a war without
Congressional declaration - except maybe the first day or two - is, well,
UNAMERICAN, and should not be done by any real patriot.