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Yes, everyone is directely responsible for their own defense.
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Well dammit i am now in the unenviable position of having to side with Pat again.
SCOTUS has (fairly recently- in the last 10-15 years IIRC) held that it is the individual's responsibility to provide their own self-defense. Not the state's, not the police's, not the Army's.
Yours.
If you want to conduct international commerce it is YOUR ultimate responsibility to secure your own interests. While it is in the nation's best interests to secure int'l commerce, it is not a legal responsibility of the gov't to do so.
I am fine if they do(unlike pat), but he is right that technically your own security is your own problem. This is why so many overseas companies have a paramilitary arm nowadays(which is also very troubling).
That being said, WWII was still a clearly justified war as we were directly responding to numerous attacks by an identifiable state belligerant against US soil.
Frankly, so dastardly was the behavior of the Japs throughout WWII that they are lucky we left ANY of them alive.
"When we are through with them Japanese will be a language spoken only in Hell."
~Gen.Curtis LeMay