[Chainmail]

Luckily for James Madison, the world hadn't made everyone - including some horrific barbarians - capable of killing Americans en masseyet. It is, however, our current reality.

It was a "large standing army" that gave America its freedom from England (not the nearly worthless but fast-running militias).

Is all of this because you didn't want to serve in the army? It can't be because of "principles" - since I'm sure that you're happy not to have to be speaking compulsory Russian, Chinese, Japanese, or German.

[central_va]

It was a "large standing army" that gave America its freedom from England (not the nearly worthless but fast-running militias).

Large standing armies refers to peacetime. LOL