They need to think of America WITHOUT a military and how Damn soon it would be before we'd be invaded by NUMEROUS countries. Sorry to bring up a "Major Dad" episode, but there was one where his wife's moonbat friend wondered why we had a military because we haven't been attacked. He bowed up and said, "Hit me as hard as you can". She said, "No, you're much bigger than I am and you'll probably do something in response". He said, "Exactly the same reason we have a standing military".