With American aircraft carriers, thousands of troops and other military resources being moved to the Middle East, American service members need to understand their role in our manufactured war.
Mark you have shared a question and a thought before that is important here. If a draft is imposed upon this generation will they be duped by Uncle Sam or will that be the spark of a true transformation (revolt against the military industrial complex)? If I remember correctly your belief is that this is the courageous generation that will say ‘No.’ Their ‘no’ is different than the Baby Boomer ‘no’. The BB ‘No’ was about a specific war. This generations ‘no’ is about violence and war in general. AND, they know they would just be used as tools to make money for the rich. I’m hoping the days of ignorance and blind agreement are over.
Being old enough to remember the Vietnam years and growing up in Madison, Wisconsin with the UW-Madison campus being one of the most active centers of protest, I remember how the elimination of the draft just evaporated the left. The boomers swapped their tie-dyes for suits and focused on careers. With no risk of their skin in the game, they were content having the 'volunteer' army -- made up of many with no other options for jobs and college -- go off and fight our wars for oil and corporate profit.
I really don't know. I hope a new generation confronted with a draft for a Middle East, multi-front genocidal war hellscape would pick up that old chant of the 60s resistance and say "Hell, no, we won't go."
Given our hellbent desire to join Israel's genocidal war, I think we will find out soon. In the meantime young people, know all that military recruiting stuff about making the world safe for freedom and democracy is pure, putrid bullshit.
The all volunteer army came about because the warhawks needed a solution to overcome the resistance and disdain for the draft. This strategy has worked for decades but the woke idiots in charge have alienated the people they need most, White Americans. I agree with Mark that if a draft is reinstated it will not work, but I also see a workaround put in place with our open borders. Citizenship is the bargaining chip and lure to attract the cannon fodder required.
I remember during the Iraq/Afghan wars there was some story about a group of US soldiers getting killed in an ambush. I was talking about it with a nice liberal friend, who agreed it was horrible and such a tragic waste of life, and loss for their families...then said "but they did volunteer".
And that is exactly the mindset and immorality of most Americans about our stupid wars for corporate profit and a handy way to give themselves moral distance from what we do to millions around the world.
I absolutely agree, Stephen. There have been lots of reports of large numbers of military-age young men among the immigrants. I'm not opposed to immigration, but the current state of what is happening is out of control and very dangerous The other thing such a large influx does is to flood the labor market, keeping wages down and hobbling unions. The current open door immigration policy has nothing to do with being humanitarian -- it's about war and labor suppression and control.
One thing I wish right wingers would get is to stop demonizing immigrants and understand it is US military and corporate policy that creates such havoc in Central America that drives immigrants out of their countries. Turn your ire on the real source of immigration -- US corporate exploitation.
On top of that, it is our US-made firearms that are being used by the drug gangs to terrorize communities, adding another reason for people to leave their countries.
Anyone who joins the military at this point is mentally inferior and anyone who goes off to fight Zionist wars is equally inferior. They should all be protesting israhell.
Mark you have shared a question and a thought before that is important here. If a draft is imposed upon this generation will they be duped by Uncle Sam or will that be the spark of a true transformation (revolt against the military industrial complex)? If I remember correctly your belief is that this is the courageous generation that will say ‘No.’ Their ‘no’ is different than the Baby Boomer ‘no’. The BB ‘No’ was about a specific war. This generations ‘no’ is about violence and war in general. AND, they know they would just be used as tools to make money for the rich. I’m hoping the days of ignorance and blind agreement are over.
Well, let's hope so.
Being old enough to remember the Vietnam years and growing up in Madison, Wisconsin with the UW-Madison campus being one of the most active centers of protest, I remember how the elimination of the draft just evaporated the left. The boomers swapped their tie-dyes for suits and focused on careers. With no risk of their skin in the game, they were content having the 'volunteer' army -- made up of many with no other options for jobs and college -- go off and fight our wars for oil and corporate profit.
I really don't know. I hope a new generation confronted with a draft for a Middle East, multi-front genocidal war hellscape would pick up that old chant of the 60s resistance and say "Hell, no, we won't go."
Given our hellbent desire to join Israel's genocidal war, I think we will find out soon. In the meantime young people, know all that military recruiting stuff about making the world safe for freedom and democracy is pure, putrid bullshit.
Uncle Sammy is one sick, pervy, degenerate baby-killer, IMO.
Every day it's a new, sicker, depraved layer of US/Iraeli ZioNazi hell.
𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦 2
𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨😆
War comes to the States and it ain’t all that great
Check today's post: BONE BY BONE: Putting Together The Pieces Of What War Is Really About
https://mark192.substack.com/p/bone-by-bone-putting-together-the
The all volunteer army came about because the warhawks needed a solution to overcome the resistance and disdain for the draft. This strategy has worked for decades but the woke idiots in charge have alienated the people they need most, White Americans. I agree with Mark that if a draft is reinstated it will not work, but I also see a workaround put in place with our open borders. Citizenship is the bargaining chip and lure to attract the cannon fodder required.
I remember during the Iraq/Afghan wars there was some story about a group of US soldiers getting killed in an ambush. I was talking about it with a nice liberal friend, who agreed it was horrible and such a tragic waste of life, and loss for their families...then said "but they did volunteer".
And that is exactly the mindset and immorality of most Americans about our stupid wars for corporate profit and a handy way to give themselves moral distance from what we do to millions around the world.
I absolutely agree, Stephen. There have been lots of reports of large numbers of military-age young men among the immigrants. I'm not opposed to immigration, but the current state of what is happening is out of control and very dangerous The other thing such a large influx does is to flood the labor market, keeping wages down and hobbling unions. The current open door immigration policy has nothing to do with being humanitarian -- it's about war and labor suppression and control.
One thing I wish right wingers would get is to stop demonizing immigrants and understand it is US military and corporate policy that creates such havoc in Central America that drives immigrants out of their countries. Turn your ire on the real source of immigration -- US corporate exploitation.
On top of that, it is our US-made firearms that are being used by the drug gangs to terrorize communities, adding another reason for people to leave their countries.
The immigration crisis is wholly MADE IN AMERICA.
AmeriKKKa loves bending over to ZioNazis
Anyone who joins the military at this point is mentally inferior and anyone who goes off to fight Zionist wars is equally inferior. They should all be protesting israhell.
Fuck you Uncle Sam,Auntie Kamala and Uncle Trump
Time to repeat history.