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> Not to mention the DoD provides us with the security to pursue private ventures.

The controversial part of the DoD is not national defense, its imperialism.

There's only one United States Department of Defense, one sitting President of the United States, one Joint Chiefs of Staff, and one sitting session of the United States Congress.

You might not support American Imperialism, but a lot of Americans do and you take the good with the bad.

Or, you support the good and try to change the bad? Is that not allowed?

Start by convincing the American public that it is bad then.

Most policy changes do not go through the public. The public has a very small amount of impact on this - both major parties, despite rhetoric to the contrary, are imperialists. They quibble over the details of how the empire should run.

You mean like, for example, by submitting opinion pieces to the New York Times?

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