But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
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The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.
If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
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