Posted on 01/26/2005 11:15:40 AM PST by An Old Marine
Once upon a time there was a liberal media. It developed out of the Great Depression and the New Deal. Liberals believed that the private sector is the source of greed that must be restrained by government acting in the public interest. The liberals' mistake was to identify morality with government. Liberals had great suspicion of private power and insufficient suspicion of the power and inclination of government to do good.
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When the draft is reinstated, conservatives will loudly proclaim their pride that their sons, fathers, husbands and brothers are going to die for "our freedom." Not a single one of them will be able to explain why destroying Iraqi cities and occupying the ruins are necessary for "our freedom." But this inability will not lessen the enthusiasm for the project. To protect their delusions from "reality-based" critics, they will demand that the critics be arrested for treason and silenced. Many encouraged by talk radio already speak this way.
Because of the triumph of delusional "new conservatives" and the demise of the liberal media, this war is different from the Vietnam war. As more Americans are killed and maimed in the pointless carnage, more Americans have a powerful emotional stake that the war not be lost and not be in vain. Trapped in violence and unable to admit mistake, a reckless administration will escalate.
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BARF ALERT is needed. I was trying to eat lunch.
a washed up hippie with an unhealthy relationship with his "bong"...
My apologies for the oversight. Reach for the Pepto...
I believe his argument is that, whether or not there are now plans for a draft and regardless of current desires, our policies - if left unchanged - will bring us to the point where a draft becomes necessary.
Perhaps that's his theory however I think a draft is only something that the left is dreaming about. Its a reflection of the overage hippies nastalgically looking back to their Woodstock Days.
Actually Americans have traditionally raised armies though volunteers it was only for a relatively short period during the 20th Century that the draft was common. It'd be a political disaster and I don't think Bush os so stupid. FUrther I'm dead set against it as are many other conservatives. If we can't raise armies to fight terrorists through volunteers then we deserve to get what would happen to us and incidentally will probably happen to the Europeans.
Either that, or he can take some Midol.
He's a paleo out of the Buchanan school: anti-Semitic,
isolationist, and viewing every foreign conflict thru
the Viet Nam prism.
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