The Good Old Days were when the US spent like 25% to 40% total GDP on weapons and mil tech. How many people do the Democrats think need killing with their drafted soldiers? Only they know.

Since the US can already devastate a large portion of the globe on 4% GDP, why do the Democrats want more divisions, more weapons, more soldiers. Who are they planning on conquering? They actually complain about the military industrial complex, of which they think soldiers in the service of the motherland can solve by pouring more onto the frontlines.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if while these guys were in the army, foreigners came over here and took their high tech/skilled jobs. Would not the Democrats howl.

The Democrats couldn’t plan a brawl in an Irish pub. In the year 1823.

The one thing we know, is that populists like cannon fodder. Professional armies are not so much for athens like democracy, as for Spartans and the helots. Remember the Russians? Boy, they loved cannon fodder, inexperienced young men sent in to do the “motherland proud”. What a slaughter. The party officials, sit back home with their luxuries, smoking cigars, and talking about how the war is going. Maybe even Rosenthal believes that there is a quality to quantity all on its own.

So you all are, Herr Rosenthal.

The Democrats want everyone to join up, like the “Good old Days” in WWIIBut because there is no draft — a fact that Graham Nash noted sardonically on Sunday night — no young person has to fear being conscripted into the fight. It is hard to escape the conclusion that Americans find it much easier to stay silent when there is no shared sacrifice.

The Democrats, a party of fear and intimidation. Nice. The draft is gone the way of the cotton gin and salvery. Say bye bye.

If the draft ever comes back, you will know that American civilization is about to be destroyed. Only catastrophe brings back the draft.

I think the moral clarity of the Democrats arevery clear in their destructive tendencies.

Curious… most of the fighting is going on in the Baghdad area, and that’s where the news media is holed up. They certainly don’t seem to miss out on bombs going off, but then they DO miss out on the peace in 90% of the rest of the country.

This clown is WAY too involved in trying to return to his youth! The fact that the campuses aren’t in riots doesn’t mean they don’t care, it more likely means they’re busy studying.

In any case, there was a poll done sometime last year in which specific viewpoints about the war were polled, and most people who didn’t like the way it was going held that view because they thought we needed to pull out the stops and go AFTER the terrorists full force, not pull out the way the peaceniks want. This seems to be the case among most of the people I know who presently object to the war.

I bet Mr. Rosenthal hasn’t read that poll, or if he did, does not believe it.