I put in my time, helped shoot down a couple of Libyan jets in 1989. Well, I actually worked on the support equipment that keeps the planes flying that shot down the Libyan jets, but close enough.
Spending some time in the military gives you an appreciation for our freedom that liberal whiners don't have. If our country threw all our history away and tried to make the world happy, we'd be speaking Chinese and praying to Allah three times a day.