Remember that it isn’t a question of what is best for the military, it’s the best way to get us to stop fighting.
He is excoriating people who have people who are not serving and has no risk, that is a point, but when it comes down to it all they are talking about is exit strategy, not a victory strategy.
Listen to what they are saying this morning, change the date and it would be Iran before the surge.
Barnicle is calling the draft a wonderful “vibrant” thing for the youth and Joe Conason is talking about it to get rid of unemployment.
How many of these people were fans of the draft before these wars? How many were against the draft in the 70’s.
So we have them pushing a draft, defeat is Afghanistan isn’t a bug, it’s a feature!
Update: Mika suggested a camera on every casket, lets use dead US troops as political props, if she is not ashamed of herself she ought to be.
Update 2: American Glob notices that this isn’t confined to Morning Joe and gets a well deserved Instalanche for his trouble. My deeper thoughts on the draft from several years ago are buried deep in here.
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