I agree, particularly if they're talking about defending you from communism, terrorism or whatever boogieman they've dreamed up to scare you into letting them spend almost a trillion dollars (of you and your neighbour’s money) a year on weapons and other things geared specifically to keep the wealthiest of your countrymen happily suckling on the military contracts doled out by the nanny state.

Heaven forbid that any of that money goes to healthcare or, worse yet, pensions for the men and women that built and maintained your country while the rest of you were still trying to figure out that complex bio-technology known as mom’s boobs. Really, if you’ve got enough money to kill thousands of people in Iraq for no good reason, you’ve got enough money to give your kids a proper education, keep the people of the country healthy and make sure the people that changed your diapers have someone to help them change theirs.