America, who willingly pissed all over sections of the Constitution after the relatively light loses sustained on 9/11 as well as immolate hundreds of thousands of innocents, proved its in no shape to accurately gauge the real costs of war, either here or abroad. Nothing's changed since. Americans are a people all too easily stampeded by bad stories and patriotic lollipops.
The only upside I could see to such apocalyptic rambunctiousness with China is that maybe, just maybe, a few of the bastards beating the drums for these sorts of confrontations may for once personally suffer the built-in costs of their actions calculated to be paid by others. I'm well aware that this falls under the category of cold comfort.
I'll say it again: We need a draft. Involve We The People in the process and take it away from our defense contractors and standing mercenaries. Heck, as long as we're dreaming, let's bring those irresponsible dandies -- Congress -- back into the business of declaring war. With the lives of their children on the line parents are more likely to cast a skeptical eye to some profitable dick-wagging in the Taiwan Straight, by way of Washington.
Naturally. This draft would also include an option for firefighting, land management, conservation, public works, and national defense, which would be for actual national defense; not for maintaining the BS imperialist outposts we have today.
I guarantee you if we'd had the draft the 20 year rape of Afghanistan would never have taken place. There would have been thousands in the streets. We pretty much have a draft now -- it's just an economic one.
America, who willingly pissed all over sections of the Constitution after the relatively light loses sustained on 9/11 as well as immolate hundreds of thousands of innocents, proved its in no shape to accurately gauge the real costs of war, either here or abroad. Nothing's changed since. Americans are a people all too easily stampeded by bad stories and patriotic lollipops.
The only upside I could see to such apocalyptic rambunctiousness with China is that maybe, just maybe, a few of the bastards beating the drums for these sorts of confrontations may for once personally suffer the built-in costs of their actions calculated to be paid by others. I'm well aware that this falls under the category of cold comfort.
I'll say it again: We need a draft. Involve We The People in the process and take it away from our defense contractors and standing mercenaries. Heck, as long as we're dreaming, let's bring those irresponsible dandies -- Congress -- back into the business of declaring war. With the lives of their children on the line parents are more likely to cast a skeptical eye to some profitable dick-wagging in the Taiwan Straight, by way of Washington.
More than a simply instituting draft, we need to apply a draft without fear or favor.
Naturally. This draft would also include an option for firefighting, land management, conservation, public works, and national defense, which would be for actual national defense; not for maintaining the BS imperialist outposts we have today.
Get the hell away from me you authoritarian mind slug.
I guarantee you if we'd had the draft the 20 year rape of Afghanistan would never have taken place. There would have been thousands in the streets. We pretty much have a draft now -- it's just an economic one.
shame on you for using a cat as your avatar.... what cat would stand for a draft?
so the answer to a free nation is to use force....