:: One reason Americans have come to view soldiers as our only protectors is that we have accepted the idea that our country is under permanent threat from fanatics who want to kill us and destroy our way of life. ::
Wrong, Mr. Kinzer! We have raised bar for our military because your journalist-predecessors, figuratively and literally, spit on the soldiers that returned from SE Asia. They were called “baby-killers”, “monsters” and “mercenaries of death”.
Even your demi-god Jon Cary was hailed by the press as “a hero” for throwing away (someone else’s) war medals.
Deal with the blow-back your previous generation created (@$$-HOLE).
A-friggin-MEN!