Posted by
Dave Perkins on Monday, November 20, 2006 10:34:45 AM
Charlie Rangel, (d) NY, is
again talking of submitting a bill resurrecting the draft.
He tried this during the '04 presidential campaign, and everyone figured he was just floating a balloon that would eventually be used against Bush (
and with help from MTV and the MSM newsguys, it worked-- over half the young people in America were convinced that BUSH would resurrect the draft).
But clearly he's onto something, and he won't let it go.
Rangel believes, and has said, that if our military were composed of a randomly selected group of kids, rich or poor, black or white, etc., then the government would be much less likely to send them into battle than with a cadre of dedicated volunteers such as we now have.
In other words, he's trying to "war-proof" this nation by making it so reluctant to send troops into battle, we simply never will do so again.
He's also talking about "national service" including alternatives to war, like hospitals or border patrol or serving the poor, that sort of thing.
But we already have organizations for young people that do those things. And those things are NOT the job of the military.
If the Dems successfully "castrate" our armed forces, they'll be playing into the hands of whoever hopes to defeat us in the future. And with Iran nuking up, North Korea already having done so, it is far from a given that we won't be needing to deploy the military in the future.
THIS is what you get with Democrats in charge, folks. They assume that war itself is the evil that must be avoided, and can't imagine anything worse than that.
Unfortunately, I can.
UPDATE: I'm reminded of just how much of a hypocrite Rangel is. His bill to reinstate the draft two years ago was brought to the floor-- and
Rangel himself voted against it.
Oh well.. at least he didn't vote FOR it before he voted against it.