I hope someone checks in on this individual on a daily basis. All sharp and dangerous objects should be removed from the home.
It works for Israel, but it wouldn’t work here.
Both Mr Reaganaut and I wanted to serve but couldn’t for health reasons (his knee and my hearing loss).
I don’t think it would work here.
Both Mr Reaganaut and I wanted to serve but couldn’t for health reasons (his knee and my hearing loss).
I don’t think it would work here.
This person is too stupid to have any business discussing our military - is the author a Dem Congressman? The military is too important for freedom to pollute it with the losers this would saddle us with. Keep our military all volunteer, so that they can select from those who want to join and take only the best available. What we have isn't perfect, but it's a whole lot better than universal conscription. If this nutcase really wants everyone to "participate" in our country, put them somewhere that the ordinary person is an improvement, for example random selection to Congress, which would be a whole lot better than elections seem to be in many cases.
The Colonial Army that was the foundation of our present US Military was volunteer - and should remain so...
It always amazes me the wide spread personalities that come together - even for a short while - that serve in the US Armed Forces - unique but single...I learned more about our nation and the background of others by being in the military - and would have hated having soldiers that complained that they :had to be there.” - Unless they want it - by free choice - all one would get under what is proposed is a train wreck...that system is not required in the US...
I want the choice to serve or not. I will always defend my country one way or another. I am not into being in the army as being a tool of the globalists or the new world order folks, or those that want us to fight in order to provide work for arms companies. Which is why at the current time I would not volunteer. Plus at this point in time I am not sure this president’s orders are lawful. Further they have now forced open homosexuality on troops, so until this would be reversed there’s no way in hell I’d put on a uniform under command of people that are so screwed up, I could not trust them.
I’d fight locally as a deputy, or defending my state, where I am.
Being universal it would not be a disruption and no one would be "getting ahead" of his peers by going to school instead.
It would give us a population of young men who are all familiar with the military. Most of the resistance to the Draft was fear of the military as an unknown thing. With all familiar with it no combat or staffing draft would ever be necessary. A war situation would bring a flood of volunteers to serve just because the military is familiar to all young men, it is not a scary unknown and the training has given them character and confidence and instilled a sense of protecting family and country. The thing that undid the old Draft was its capriciousness and the opportunities for rich kids and politically connected kids to avoid it and stay cushily in universities. Make it a part of becoming an adult for boys.
This is a great idea, until you really think about it. How many pathetic lefties do you want standing next to you in formation? I’ve been there and I can say NONE!
This would collectively bring down all standards the military has, and that may be the reason why Charlie the turd Wrangle and this author want to do it.
We already spend $15,000 per year for each of them to go public school, and 90% of them can't read a cereal box.
Mandatory military service is a form of involuntary servitude.
Truthfully, the wave of the future is to limit the use of the US military to real and important missions. Better for them, far cheaper and more sensible for all of us.
The way to do this is to create a foreign legion, somewhat like the French Foreign Legion, but privately owned and operated offshore of the US. Think by a US loyal company like Blackwater, owned and operated by US veterans.
Importantly, this organization would perform some of the most mundane, expensive, and erosive missions the US military is saddled with, yet nationally give us *more* military flexibility around the world.
1) Peacekeeping, humanitarian and disaster relief missions. For the US military to do these “stand around with a rifle and feed people” missions costs billions, uses expensive supplies, and diverts combat oriented commands away from where they should be. And they can drag on for months or years.
2) Conventional African missions. Americans just plain do not want to send our sons and daughters to Africa. We correctly see the place as a pest hole filled with nasty diseases and no, zero compelling national interest.
Importantly, the French learned long ago that such forces must be kept offshore, because in country there are just too many temptations for mischief, from just about everyone. So likely we would put them on a Caribbean island, and when they had signed on to a mission, voluntarily, the US military would provide them with transport and logistics.
Being offshore as well, they could recruit the best and the brightest from around the world, as long as their senior NCOs and officers were US citizens.
Being a private organization, the US could also offer their services to American allies, and unlike with our own people, would have no problem with them being under foreign control.
The use of such private armies was very successful in Europe for over a thousand years, and kept the price of military services far lower than with standing armies. Only when Napoleon created an enormous “grand armee” of a million men was it realized that such a mass could only be opposed by other mass armies. But if such massive numbers are not in question, private armies are much more economical.
The military is not what it used to be.
Grunts refuse to require their troops to perform field days because it is beneath them.
Go figure.
Interesting that the author is described as a Libertarian??!!
This proposal does not seem very libertarian to me.
We don’t need no steenking mandatory service.
I think it’s a great idea. If all the teens on their way to Harvard, Yale and Wall Street had to serve for two years, it would go a long way toward dispelling the contempt and hatred the ruling class has for the rest of America.
Women could do all the support jobs instead of training for combat, just like in WWII.
As a guy who was drafted in WW II, I resent some of the comments that drafted guys would not fight. WW II was won by draftees since most of the regular army guys were lost in Africa and Italy. Normandy and the Bulge were fought by soldiers less than 25 years old.
Anyway saying that I don’t go along with military service draftees in other than war time. A peace time army would only encourage military action as all presidents seem to want to be a ‘war time president’. Giving them a ready available army would be too much of a temptation.
If Congress formally declares we are at war, then a draft would be appropriate.
The new volunteers were head and shoulders better soldiers than the old draftees.
So, I'd say, any suggestion about returning to a draftee military is really an attempt to degrade our forces from today's levels -- which are universally acknowledged to be the best ever.
Perhaps more importantly:
Point is, while militia service was near universal during colonial times, the nation managed without a national draft until the Civil War, and when the draft was applied long-term, from WWII through Vietnam, it was not ultimately good for the military.
Further, unlike past militaries -- which were built on masses of "canon fodder" troops -- the whole concept of war-fighting today depends on the few, the well-trained, the highly-motivated and equipped with the best weapons possible.
These people have to be volunteers, they have to be good people to begin with, and they have to be carefully selected for their roles. In short: they have to be professional.
So in a sense, they have to be the best our nation can offer, not your "average Joe", and certainly not the dregs which can be over represented in a drafted army.
If you ask, how can we maintain adequate force levels without a draft? The answer is: pay them more, and give them more respect where it counts -- in their home communities.
Final thought: America has never been a "military state" like the old Prussian Empire. We only reluctantly raise and maintain barely adequate armies during wartime, and can only hope and pray we don't lose too much military expertise during long years of peace.
An American military today, equivalent to the peak of World War Two, would include nearly 50 million citizens, nearly all of them drafted.
Can anyone even imagine a scenario (short of total nuclear war) in which such a force might be required?
The “NEW YORK” DAILY NEWS?? Do you really expect the NY’ers NOT to Blame Palin? To the NY liberals she is the most hated woman on the planet. Did you not expect the MSM to get as much mileage as they can from this incident to work against Palin? Its a Propaganda war that is weighted on the MSM side and directed to the stupidity of the dumb-ass voters they cater to.