When you have lived most of your years within an institution, you may only be able to see what the institution has been, not what it must now become.

So, for example, even though elected and appointed federal officials take an oath to support and defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” your military experience might have been limited to the defense of our country against international threats — enemies foreign. If so, it is hard to imagine, or perhaps even justify in your mind, that it might now be necessary to defend against internal threats — enemies domestic.

But here’s the hard truth those advocating limited use of the military ignore: The Constitution does not consign Americans to suffer violent disorder until local officials figure it out. The urgency o

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