The United States Border Guard
Jon Dougherty of GOPUSA makes an interesting suggestion.
COMMENTARY — New Military Branch: The United States Border Guard:
He’d like to see a new military branch created called the US Border Guard.
My opinion: Don’t create a new branch, just put our current military to work at what is supposed to be their job in the first place. Bring our troops home from the outposts of the American Empire and let them do something more honorable and worthwhile than project power to satisfy the bloody ambitions of our national politician on both the left and right.
First off, a standing army is anathema to a free republic. Someone always wants to use it to push around another country. A standing army is an unbearable temptation for any politician to use it for evil purposes. I can see keeping a cadre of the toughest and best soldiers whose job is to travel the country training local militias. Other than that, we shouldn’t even have an army.
I’m a military brat and I love the military. It is full of honest, decent, honorable people. Unfortunately, they are controlled by people who don’t care about whether soldiers live and die, as long as their deaths can get someone re-elected. And no, I’m not talking about Bush, I’m talking about all of them, Democrats and Republicans alike.