Posted on 12/02/2013 3:20:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
At this time of Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for the U.S. military — not just for the usual reason that it protects us from our foes but also because it has the potential to save us from ourselves.
As I make my rounds each day in the capital, chronicling our leaders’ plentiful foibles, failings, screw-ups, inanities, outrages and overall dysfunction, I’m often asked if there’s anything that could clean up the mess.
My usual answer is a shrug and an admission that there’s no silver bullet. There are many possibilities — campaign spending limits, term limits, nonpartisan primaries, nonpartisan redistricting, a third party — but most aren’t politically or legally feasible, might not make much of a difference or, as with Harry Reid’s rewriting of Senate rules, have the potential to make things even worse.
But one change, over time, could reverse the problems that have built up over the past few decades: We should mandate military service for all Americans, men and women alike, when they turn 18. The idea is radical, unlikely and impractical — but it just might work.
There is no better explanation for what has gone wrong in Washington in recent years than the tabulation done every two years of how many members of Congress served in the military....
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No one in their right mind would make such a statement.
This has been the one fool-proof way for the Ruling Class to get rid of excess unemployed young men that has worked throughout human history.
All we need now is a war.
“I’m often asked if there’s anything that could clean up the mess.........”
Perhaps a revolt?
File this in ‘going no-where’ file!
War? Yep. Indoctrination? Yep.
Personally, I’d suggest we bring back the MILITIA, not the draft. Of course, this would make certain coastal “elites” s__t their pants.
This is part of the leftist mindset. Even when they stumble upon a good idea (serving in the military) they have to ruin it by making it mandatory. But that’s how collectivism works and how collectivists think. They don’t understand nor appreciate the concept of freedom.
Robert A. Heinlein, Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington (1961)
Only one % of the population are defending the 99%. Soon that 1% will reflect in Congress. All our FOUNDERS had “skin in the game”. How does a legislator make decisions in areas he has no knowledge of. I’m against a full draft but maybe a 1/3 “lottery” . Get your number at 18 and show up the day after your 19th. NO DEFERMENTS except for physical/mental DISABILITIES. Eventually ALL areas of life, (business, politics, etc), will have people who have served.
A free country doesn’t need a slave army.
It seems we do need a mercenary army though...
Maybe we should start an Idiot's ping list for those that wouldn't serve this CIC, because I would not serve voluntarily either. I am not retired from the military but I served 9 years, 11 months and 16 days.
When I left the Navy in 1965, women were beginning to be assigned to line ships, Homos were still locked in the brig, and I still cared, not so much anymore.
Restore the draft?
Only if women are included this time. That would get it overturned pretty rapidly, I think.
Besides, women can do anything a man can do, can’t they? And there are no significant differences between men and women, except minor plumbing details. Right?
No. The draft is wrong for a “free country”.
Mandatory servitude to master government should be a big NO
I agree
That is ridiculous, the draft was never about seeking unemployed men, it was probably more of a way to avoid the hard core unemployed.
For one thing, chronic or long term unemployed, would probably rarely qualify to be accepted into the military.
The military has become a big social experiment that will end up getting a lot of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines killed as a result somewhere down the line.
Until the Republic is restored I have no desire to see my sons or anyone’s sons blood, sweat and tears shed for the current form of tyranny that is Washington DC.
Check your sarcasm meter. It doesn’t seem to be calibrated right. :)
draft Democrats and send them all overseas for good
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