This is the most terrifying thing I can imagine this morning, just finishing the first week of a new school year with so many smiling young American faces creating wonderfully hopeful art.
John McCain would bring back the draft. And remember, this time it will be fair.
Found this in a google search on John Seiler's blog.
And this time the draft will include girls. We’re an "equal opportunity society" now, so girls would be given the same opportunity as boys to be drafted and killed in McCain’s wars.
John McCain's own website takes the trigger-happy madman approach to new heights, using soldiers as mere weapons:
The most important weapons in the U.S. arsenal are the men and women of American armed forces. John McCain believes we must enlarge the size of our armed forces to meet new challenges to our security. For too long, we have asked too much of too few - with the result that many service personnel are on their second, third and even fourth tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Our existing force is overstretched by the combination of military operations in the broader Middle East and the need to maintain our security commitments in Europe and Asia. Recruitment and retention suffer from extended overseas deployments that keep service personnel away from their homes and families for long periods of time.
John McCain believes that the answer to these challenges is not to roll back our overseas commitments. The size and composition of our armed forces must be matched to our nation's defense requirements. As requirements expand in the global war on terrorism so must our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard be reconfigured to meet these new challenges. John McCain thinks it is especially important to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps to defend against the threats we face today.
One question, Senator McCain. Where will your "weapons" come from? Our schools? Our homes?
Our families?
Senator McCain, with all due respect, you seem to be unable to understand how heartbreaking The Draft would be for America. You seem to be recklessly puffing your chest in Russia's face. You seem to be completely out of touch.
Countdown illustrates how serious this is.
Compare that to Barack Obama on the stump:
"When an American soldier is sent to war, the whole family is deployed."
What would happen to America in 2009 if John McCain instituted The Draft again? We would be ripped apart, in more ways than I can count.
This is the most terrifying thing I can imagine this morning. Any idea about why it is not getting major media coverage?