Why Charles Rangel Is A Blooming Idiot
Reinstating a military draft would have the opposite effect from what this bozo claims....
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By: John D. Hamilton
U.S. Rep Charles Rangel (D-NY) has made a call, with what so far has appeared to be a straight face, to reinstate a military draft. Forget for a moment the philosophical implications involved in this absurdity (which I'll delve deeper into with a later article) and let's simply examine why this fool has called for a draft to begin with and what he thinks will be accomplished by such a crazy idea.
Ol' Chuck says that a draft would be the best way to prevent politicians from engaging in "adventurism," and if a draft had been in effect today, Iraq wouldn't have happened. How would this magic feat have transpired? Well, Chuckie sez that since politician's kids would be subject to a draft, they would be less likely to rubber-stamp idiotic travesties like the war in Iraq.
I wonder where this nitwit was during the Vietnam War? Another stupid war entered into by America for totally lame, totally bogus reasons, and yet, wait for it, America had a draft! And we all know how easy it was for those draft-age fellas with well-connected families to avoid ever stepping foot into a conscription centre, don't we?
Rangel and his idea are both as stupid as stupid can be. Having a constant, enforced supply of fresh fodder would in no way limit a government's adventuristic tendencies--in fact it would make them easier to instigate. No one could possibly claim that a particular military excursion shouldn't be undertaken due to manpower under such a scenario, regardless of other considerations.
Hell, I can hear Rove Co, LLC saying "You know, if we had a draft we could have taken on Iraq, Iran, Syria and maybe even Jordan, too!"
Rangel's lame-brained idea should be taken for what it is...a load of bollocks (or at least a load of dingo's kidneys) cooked up by a half-bright chowderhead with too much time and far too much power on his hands. Anyone eligible to vote in this freak's constituency should statrt working now to make sure this guy is handed a heaping platter of Defeat and Shame next election.
John D. Hamilton is a world traveler, accomplished computer programmer and a general-purpose know-it-all whose finely crafted screeds routinely create fracas' on at least three continents.
