Dastardly Dems Design Draft: Drain Doughboys Discipline, Debase Domestic Defense, Declaw Diplomacy

Just so we're all clear, Democratic Representative Rangel agrees with his colleague, Democratic Senator Kerry, about the stupidity of American servicemen. But he's proposing a concrete solution: cripple the US Armed Forces.

An influential Democratic lawmaker on Sunday called [again] for reinstatement of the draft as a way to boost U.S. troop levels and draw a broader section of the population into the military or public service.

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, the incoming chairman of the House of Representatives' tax-writing committee, said he would introduce legislation to reinstate the draft as soon as the new, Democratic-controlled Congress convenes in January.

Asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" if he was still serious about the proposal for a universal draft he raised a couple of years ago, he said, "You bet your life. Underscore serious."

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Rangel, who opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, also said he did not think the United States would have invaded Iraq if the children of members of Congress were sent to fight. He has said the U.S. fighting force is comprised disproportionately of people from low-income families and minorities.

"I don't see how anyone can support the war and not support the draft. I think to do so is hypocritical," he said.

We could explain to Rep. Rangel, again, how false his prejudices against our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are. We could give him ample evidence of how the military is educated, dedicated, and composed of a broad segment of society, but Rep. Rangel won't listen, accept, and apologize. Oh no.

In closely related news, a post by the lads at Hatemongers Quarterly at Wizbang! today doubted that even the craziest leftists could want the American military disbanded.

But this "let's get rid of the US military" business, we think, is simply too crazy to be believed. Sure, Kim Jong-il and Hezbollah pine for the downfall of American armed forces, since it would allow them freer rein than they currently enjoy. But could anyone earnestly hoping for peace conclude that the world would be a Valhalla without the US military? If you ask us, that conclusion requires such an unbelievable level of stupidity that, quite frankly, we simply aren't sure it exists.

Since the imposition of a draft would swell the ranks of our currently all-professional all-volunteer military with unneeded and unwilling short-timers, the draft would have the same fundamental result as the outright abolition of the Department of Defense: the end of America's ability to project force to defend ourselves, to support our allies, and to honor our treaty obligations. Withdrawing to a state of weak fecklessness inside our own borders would be suicide for Western Civilization.

But, in one sense, Wizbang's poster is correct. The abolition of the American armed services would turn the world into a Valhalla. To quote from Wikipedia:

The hall itself has 540 doors, so wide that 800 warriors could walk next to each other, walls made of spears, a roof made of shields and benches covered with breastplates. It is said that there is room enough for all those chosen. Here, every day, the slain warriors who will assist Odin in Ragnarök, the gods' final conflict with the giants, arm themselves for battle and ride forth by the thousands to engage in mock combat on the plains of Asgard.

Valhalla is eternal battle, only this time without the nightly mead-and-roast-boar bender. And that's what Rep. Rangel and his cohort would bring us, in the end.

Comments

[Dad]

Deliciously debated!

[J. C.]

Charlie Strangle can go suck an exhaust pipe.