The military can only be fighting to protect your freedoms, when it is fighting directly against an attack on your freedom. The only two examples of this, for the USA (in modernish history), are 9/11 and Pearl Harbour.
The fact of the matter is, by fact that there is fighting, is a curtail on your freedoms. War costs money, and in order to get that money, the Government must impose upon your property rights. Let's not forget, however, that Governments always use war as an excuse to take away more of our liberties. Would there have been a Patriot Act without 9/11? Probably not (at least, not in its all-invasive form). Espionage Act without WWI? No. Would Roosevelt been able to lock up over 100,000 Japanese Americans without WW2? Would Lincoln's constitutional atrocities been tolerated without the Civil War?
So, you have to be very careful. How can the military be used to spread liberty and democracy in the Middle East, when the very same action is being used to curtail liberties at home? War for freedom, almost by definition, is double-speak.
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