Gangs in the Military

Zaphod
Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:30:38 +0000

Until the situation deteriorates to the point that unless we have every man on the line we will lose the war, then the draft isn’t going to work.

Also, isolationism is hardly what we have today. Back then, they were content to simply stay here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. and let the world burn. Nowadays, it’s OUR cities which have burned, and yet the “opposition” still doesn’t get behind the war effort, and does everything they can to oppose it.

Sorry, but past conflicts do not translate to the present, and the one that comes the closest, Vietnam, is hardly a model for how we should do things.

As for “nuking them all”, we may come down to that, seeing as this nation no longer seems to accept the idea that we are going to lose men in combat when we fight wars. We have liberated a nation and occupied it in the face of stern terrorist resistance for over 3 years with fewer casualties than we suffered in one day during WWII, and you’d thinl we had lost 20 million.

The face of war is changing, but mostly because we don’t seem to have the stomach for it anymore. No collateral damage, no American troops hurt or killed, museums protected, mosques protected, protection of civilians at the expense of our own forces, etc.

I fear the day we have to face China, and we will someday.

I will say this, however: It sure would be fun to let some Marine and Army DI’s loose on some of the vermin you see marching in today’s “peace” rallies. VERY fun indeed, especially if they bring back all the DI’s could do back in the 50’s and 60’s.

Can you see my evil grin? :D