You may not like the extent of their protection, or how they go about protecting, but it is childishly naive to suggest the country does not need protection.
But I know it is cool these days to pretend that the military is 100% evil and every dollar spent on it is a total waste.
I think it's not a matter of having a military but it's relevant how big it is and how much people are working for it (direct or indirect). Keeping the balance. There are so many people working for them or dependent through government contracts in the US, it's shocking (don't know another word for it right now; americans often talk about freedom and free market and so on but so many are dependent on this complex, a huge chunk of their economy is. Like in almost no other country).
I was not overly precise due to time constraints. The "questionable" part refers to the problem of the military-industrial complex that tends to arise.
You may not like the extent of their protection, or how they go about protecting, but it is childishly naive to suggest the country does not need protection.
But I know it is cool these days to pretend that the military is 100% evil and every dollar spent on it is a total waste.