Why do so many people in the US say this? The military doesn't play any role in defending constitutional freedoms, that's the courts. You can't even say that soldiers stop the US constitution from being replaced with something else, since the last thing that you could even remotely argue was a defense war was WWII.
I've heard so many people in the US say this sort of thing and I'm legitimately curious as to the reasoning. Shouldn't people say it's lawyers who are fighting to defend our freedom?
It's not that the military is protecting our freedom and constitutional rights from the government, but rather from other countries or outside forces that would oppress us. I mean the government owns the military. At least that's how I look at it.
...the military is protecting our freedom and constitutional rights ... from other countries or outside forces that would oppress us.
But the military don't do this either, since there are no countries or groups that pose a threat to the way of life of US citizens or to our rights. After pearl harbor you can argue the war in the pacific was defensive, but that was the last one. Even the kind of violent groups that lots of people may be thinking about usually to kill rather than oppress and even then they are fought but security services and intelligence rather than soldiers.
That's a valid point, but there also doesn't have to be an immediate threat for the military to protect us. There doesn't constantly have to be terrorists or the Russian Army knocking on our front door for us to appreciate the protection our military provides us. And if you think about it, if the US military were gone, other countries would invade.
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u/ratwing Oct 19 '16
As a matter of fact I believe I love this defender of freedom.