Alternet Blogs: An All-American Army

Posted by Jan Frel on October 20, 2005 at 7:05 PM.

"The military is a proven contributor to foreign policy. Why can’t it make the same contributions to domestic policy?" Yeah.

Yeah! Why not? One intrepid Derek Reveron at the National Review Online wrote a Posse Comitatus, schmomitatus piece that left me wondering where you find these people who want to be ruled by the boys in camo. Are they servile creatures who can only relax in the presence of combined firepower displays on the populace? Do they want a piece of the action? What are they in it for?