<Now there's no draft, and Bush is so far out of soldiers that he's cutting short the returns of guys who thought that their 1-year tours of duty were over.>
One year is nothing if it's a serious cause. My father spent four years in tents in the desert in WWII with shrapnel flying around and enemy not far away, because "Hitler had to be stopped". I doubt that most American soldiers have their hearts in it quite as much as that.
Fighting for Halliburton's profits must be demoralizing when the expectation of young Iraqi women garlanding their liberators evaporated like the swarms of virgins Jihadis expect to find when they decorporealize. "Mission Accomplished" wasn't supposed to look like this.
A few months might have been okay and even fun, but it's starting to look like serious hard work now, even with the mod cons of USA military life at base camp.
Meanwhile, there's a draft being prepared, "just in case", they say. In defence of freedom they are planning to force people against their will to kill and be killed. Some freedom. They deserve to get insurrection at home for that approach to freedom.
In a capitalist system, with freedom, self-determination, voluntary exchange of value, free association and with money as the arbiter of most exchanges of value, one would think that if there's a shortage of soldiers, the government, backed by the taxpayer electorate, would raise the price paid to soldiers and keep raising it until they had the numbers and quality of people they need.
Slavery went out of fashion a century ago, but it seems the skull and bones brigade is bringing it back in. Sure, the slaves won't be just the melanin-rich this time, but they'll assuredly be male, young and unable to buy their way, or have their father get them, out of the line of fire.
It's not too late! Call an emergency session of the UN general assembly and start the NUN process. Admit that the PNAC isn't the way to run a 21st century railroad. Superconducting levitation is the way to do it. It's time to move on from the 19th century geopolitical processes. Bleating over Rwanda's genocide is a bit late. Moaning about Iraqis fighting for a piece of the action, [oil and power], where fighting for a piece of the action is the way things are being decided, is a bit late too.
A draft in the USA is crazy and criminal! Goodbye freedom. Hello serfdom.
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