Domestic tranquility — A shared responsibility

When you have lived most of your years within an institution, you may be able to see only what the institution has been, not what it must now become.

- Bill O’Brien, Tribune News Service

So, for example, even though elected and appointed federal officials take an oath to support and defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” a military experience might have been limited to the defense of the country against international threats — enemies foreign. IF so, it is hard to imagine or perhaps even justify in your mind that it might now be necessary to defend against internal threats — enemies domestic.

Here's the hard truth. Some advocate that limited use of the military ignores the Constitution and does not consign Americans to suffer violent disorder until local officials figure it out. The urgency of the situation demands that we oppose those who have now become domestic enemies.