A really, really good question

A besieged sheriff wonders about priorities:

Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu said the Obama administration’s decision to extend the deployment of 1,200 U.S. National Guard troops along the U.S. border with Mexico until Sept. 30 is “pandering” and that those numbers “fall far short” of what military power is needed to keep the country safe. Babeu noted, for comparison, the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea to help defend it against North Korean aggression; U.S. troops have been stationed in South Korea for 58 years.

Babeu is the sheriff of Pinal County in southern Arizona and is on the frontlines against illegal immigration, human traffickers, drug smugglers, and potential terrorists. He was named the 2011 National Sheriff of the Year by the National Sheriff’s Association on Sunday, June 19.

“What are we doing?” Babeu told CNSNews.com by telephone. “We need 6,000 armed soldiers on our border to protect America. Homeland Security starts at home.” He was talking about the National Guard.

The Founders rightfully feared the power and natural inclinations of a standing military.  They would be appalled at the idea of both creating a standing military... then stationing it on every doggone border in the world but our own.

Good fences make good neighbors, as they say.  It's not racist to want to constrain immigration to legal channels only.  Those already here have a vested interest in knowing and approving of who seeks to live amongst us.  Can anyone doubt that if we had secure frontiers there'd be less excuse for intrusive abuses of citizens in the name of "security?"

But since government's agenda is always to grow government power at the expense of liberty, the "finest military the world's ever seen" (as the cheerleaders like to call it from their safe perches) will remain scattered all over that world... instead of where they're needed.