Pfaff is talking to himself, trying to make sense of it all.
Therefore, one must ask what good it does to have colossal military forces, when—whatever damage they do to the people they attack—they don’t change anyone’s mind or beliefs. Or, to the extent that they do, it is to create even more hatred—not of “America’s freedoms” but of the United States of America itself.
The obvious answer is....given what we know, it makes NO sense. So......the logical conclusion is that the answer must lie elsewhere......and that's just foreign policy!!!!!!!. Domestic policy makes no sense either. So where does all this lead?