President Trump is being criticized for
surrounding himself with tanks, armored vehicles, flyovers, and generals
and admirals during his Fourth of July celebration at the Lincoln
Memorial. Critics say that it was unseemly for the president to be
showing off the federal government’s military process on Independence
Day. Some said it conjured up images of the Soviet Union, when that
communist regime would showcase its tanks and military hardware in
parades in Moscow’s Red Square.
But the fact is that America is a
military nation. As Trump pointed out in his Independence Day address,
the United States has the most powerful military in history, one that
can pulverize any other nation on earth. His critics don’t have any
problem with that. They just don’t want Trump to highlight it.
Of course, it wasn’t always that way. In
extolling America’s position as a military nation, Trump left out
something important in his talk: America did not start out as a military
nation. In fact, quite the contrary. America was founded as a
limited-government republic, not a military nation.
In fact, the people who founded the
United States abhorred the concept of a military nation. That’s one of
the reasons they chose to revolt against their own government, which was
a military nation, one whose officials extolled its military prowess,
just as Trump does today with America.
It’s easy to think of the people who
signed the Declaration of Independence as great Americans. They weren’t.
The reason they weren’t was that they weren’t Americans. They were
British citizens. They were every bit as British as Americans today are
Americans...........https://www.fff.org/2019/07/05/trump-reminds-us-that-america-is-a-military-nation/
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