I was just musing about why there’s not more outrage at Bush’s abject failure in the Iraq War misadventure [see below]. So I posted this question on my favorite blog, the left coaster [http://www.theleftcoaster.com/]. Here’s my question:
I don’t understand why people aren’t more outraged at his poor showing. While many of us would question the policy [preemption] and his justification for putting it into action in the first place [WMD’s, Al Qaeda ties], beyond that, it would seem that even people who agreed with his sentiments would be giving him a more resounding vote of no confidence for what a miserable failure this whole enterprise has been. Are we still unable to admit defeat, like in the Korean and Vietnamese Wars?
And here’s TIKI AL’s answer:
no draft = able to get away with murder
Great point! I always forget there’s no draft. Talk about the Law of Unintended Consequences…
Tiki Al’s obviously onto something. Still it does not make me wish for a draft. Personally I am too old and already failed the physical in 1983. But take the current trend to the nth degree… If this war goes on and on (like Viet Nam). We will have killed and/or wounded a huge part of the population that was basically ok with the idea that they might go into harm’s way wearing the uniform. What is left are people of service age that would have to be compelled into the military. Recruitment is down, no? Stop-Loss is only a Stop-Gap. Are we on an inevitable track toward the no-volunteer Army? One would think that would lessen our ability to do what the military does. What about N Korea? Iran? If the theatre blows up to include other ‘axes-of-evil,’ what then?
” The close-mouthed Fitzgerald and the voluble Italians could not be more different in their respective approaches: the former gives the media next to nothing, and the latter are all too forthcoming. The result is that public awareness of the implications is taking much longer to percolate in the U.S., while the real story of how we were lied into war is coming out on the front pages of the Italian media. Sooner or later, however, Americans will learn the full truth about the liars – their crimes, their motives, and perhaps even their overseas connections.
The War Party is being slowly backed into a corner, and the Italian imbroglio gives us new hope that the process is quickening. The wheels of justice may be turning with frustrating laziness, but when they finally begin to move my guess is that the culprits in the great Niger Uranium Hoax are going to be crushed beneath their weight in very short order.”
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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9278
dc. Oh, I hope so. That would make my year…