musso
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The road to …
From a broader historical perspective, we have enjoyed arguably the most secure location in the world. Literally the two largest moats on the planet protect our eastern and western shores. To the north we’ve had friendly neighbors with a shared cultural and political ancestry. Behind them is one of the planet’s most formidable barriers, the Arctic. Likewise, to the south, we’ve had no threats militarily. The natural constriction of Southern Mexico and Central America predetermined that North America would never fear an invasion from the South.
So as fate would have it, rather than benefit from the peace and prosperity our geography and founding principles offered us, some very sick individuals, many of whom would enter Groton Prep School in MA and then be sent to the Ivy League, set us on a trajectory of becoming, in John Q. Adam’s prophetic term, “the Dictress of the World.” The truth is, it would have required remarkably little to defend the lives, liberties, and property of Americans had the purpose of our military been to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. But that simply isn’t how the military has been utilized. Had it been, it would have overthrown Capitol Hill multiple times in history to “refresh the tree of liberty.” Rather than building a “city on a hill,” we built an Eye of Sauron.
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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” —Albert Camus
Quoted above is a sublime recitation of our civic religion. Call it the Pentagon’s Creed. The inconvenient truth that demolishes this dogma, however, is that every metric that can be empirically measured indicates Americans were wealthier, healthier, and freer before you enlisted. The costs and corruption of our own government have been an exponentially greater burden than any foreign threat unassisted by our own government.
From a broader historical perspective, we have enjoyed arguably the most secure location in the world. Literally the two largest moats on the planet protect our eastern and western shores. To the north we’ve had friendly neighbors with a shared cultural and political ancestry. Behind them is one of the planet’s most formidable barriers, the Arctic. Likewise, to the south, we’ve had no threats militarily. The natural constriction of Southern Mexico and Central America predetermined that North America would never fear an invasion from the South.
So as fate would have it, rather than benefit from the peace and prosperity our geography and founding principles offered us, some very sick individuals, many of whom would enter Groton Prep School in MA and then be sent to the Ivy League, set us on a trajectory of becoming, in John Q. Adam’s prophetic term, “the Dictress of the World.” The truth is, it would have required remarkably little to defend the lives, liberties, and property of Americans had the purpose of our military been to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. But that simply isn’t how the military has been utilized. Had it been, it would have overthrown Capitol Hill multiple times in history to “refresh the tree of liberty.” Rather than building a “city on a hill,” we built an Eye of Sauron.
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