{"id":22998,"date":"2011-04-19T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22998"},"modified":"2011-04-19T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:01:58","slug":"the-bi-polar-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22998","title":{"rendered":"The bi-polar Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

When they were all draft-age, the left opposed the draft, naturally. But now, like some of our resident trolls, the draft seems to be the answer of all of our problems – like beer. From the same folks who brought yesterday’s discussion of sexual assault in the military, Miller-McCune<\/a> brings us the myopic view that we should restore and reconstitute the draft to prevent war;<\/p>\n

West Point\u2019s Lance Betros adds: \u201cThe military is losing contact with the wider society. And those who make the decisions about military force really don\u2019t have any skin in the fight. We\u2019ve reached the point where you have to wonder how well policy makers understand the consequences of their actions when it comes to national deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Gates Commission signed off on its report, the 91st Congress had nearly 400 veterans, from World War II and Korea. The just completed 111th Congress had far fewer, 121. Only seven members of the 110th Congress had family serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The fear is not that the military would attempt to usurp the government. \u201cThe real danger,\u201d Betros says, \u201cis that Americans reflexively move towards a military solution before they will try all the other elements of national power. For now, the country relies very, very heavily on its military, without asking if there is an alternative. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is there any half-wit bozo who thinks that the commitment of military forces to Afghanistan or Iraq in the war against terror would have been avoided if there was a draft? Seriously. There was only one solution when thousands of innocent Americans were murdered ten years ago.<\/p>\n

If the author of the above thinks that there was an alternative response, I wish he’d remove his skull from deep inside his anus and tell us. He called the Vietnam-era military a “conscript Army” but 648,500 men were draftees of the 2.6 million who served in Vietnam – that’s less than 25%. And having a draft didn’t keep us out of Vietnam.<\/p>\n

These anti-war nimnils are just rying to figure out why there is such resistance to their movements and they think if they can get selective service ramped up again, they can be popular again.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Finrod. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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