If you want peace, keep up your deterrence?

Peggy Noonan says we should scrap the base-closing on better safe than sorry grounds.

Why, oh why, did we ever agree to destroy all those nuclear warhead and nerve gas shells!?

I don't know what to think. We have entered a new phase of national defense. Our very openness has become a means for attacking us. People seeking martyrdom will not be deterred by conventional arms or WMD. Will keeping these bases open protect us from terrorism? I wish I knew.

Since 9/11, we have been living in an age of heroes and villains. I don't think that we have enough of the former to keep all these bases open.

I wish I could explain how all of this resonates with me because of The Book of Mormon. It has many chapters describing warfare, which people wonder about when they consider that the book is "Another Testament of Jesus Christ." We are taught that the book was written and preserved precisely for our time. The implication is that to win against evil, both from our enemies at the gates and from the enemies among us, we must turn to God. Those who consider that Constitutional blasphemy remind me of the King Men, the group who attempted to overthrow the civil government in a time of war and destroy democracy and freedom. This war is about our future as an independent nation. Note that I didn't say "a free nation." Freedom is derived from independence. That is what we should be shouting from the rooftops. Independence from anyone but the true and living God, and dependent upon him after all we can do for ourselves.