Food, fuel, other greature comforts. It has been the same since 10 thousand Dinars was offered for the throne of Rome. The military will follow whomever offers it the best deal. Even General Eisenhower saw it, after he was elected President.

The military's problem is going to be complex, and unsolvable, if civil war once again comes to our door. The land mass is too large, and the supply train too unstable, for it to be successful. Our military depends on a stable and uninterrupted supply of everything it needs to function, in order for it to function. Disrupt that, and our military might collapses. And our military is too small to occupy these United States, even with the NG.

That is what scares our political class. An uprising in this country would be unstoppable, if it gains a foothold. OWS thought they could tap into that, but they lacked the drive (and the political esprit de corps) to get anywhere. And of course, the actual intellect to figure out what end the power flowed from. They want socialism. We, the American people, don't.

We want liberty.

We want freedom.

We want to be left the heck alone as long as our fist does not come near our neighbors nose.

We claim today to be the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Its only partly true. Home of the brave? Yeah. Got that licked.

Land of the Free? Nope. Not for a long time. Longer than I have been alive. And that has been for 41 years. Even my father-in-law, who walked through Hiroshima just months after it happened, sees we aren't free any more.