I am grateful to the men and women of our military for their service, but armies are only expedients, necessary evils. They should be kept out of sig… - Kevin D. Williamson

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I am grateful to the men and women of our military for their service, but armies are only expedients, necessary evils. They should be kept out of sight for the same reason I keep the guns out of sight in my home. A military parade does not display greatness—it displays power. And that may be where I most part company with our new nationalists. To my eye, there is more American greatness in a New England town hall than in all of Washington, and more American greatness in an Oregon apple orchard or a Rotary meeting than there is in all the tanks and rockets that ever have been.

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About Kevin D. Williamson

Kevin Daniel Williamson (born 18 September 1972) is an American conservative political commentator. He is the roving correspondent for National Review.

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