When a reporter for the United States Army Training and Doc-trine Command interviewed Frank Zappa for the Command's news syndicate, the story was held by a superior who demanded that Zappa- who had been rather hard on the Army-answer one more\nquestion: just who does he think will defend the country without the Army?\nZappa's reply: \From what?\nThe biggest threat to America today is its own federal government... \nWill the Army protect anybody from the FBI? \nThe IRS? \nThe CIA? \nThe Republican party? \nThe Democratic party?... \nThe biggest dangers we face today don't even need\nto sneak past our billion-dollar defense system... they issue the contracts for them.\\nThe interview was not run.