As has been pointed out by growing numbers of people, the US is running out of troops. Reservists in Iraq are being called upon to do consecutive one-year tours, and the US has little choice at this point but to double the forces in Iraq if there is to be a modicum of success. Coupled with looming conflicts in the oil-rich African nations, as well as the North Korean wildcard (which has a standing Army larger than the United States does), there simply are not enough people in the US military to defend its current unilateral goals.
This leaves the US in a very unpleasant situation; either lose all of those battles and face the potential horrendous problems it will cause both domestically and to US interests around the world. Assuming that the international community doesn't bail out and forgive the US (and fight its self-serving battles for it), there is no solution other than to bring back the draft. It's either bring back the draft, or lose. I don't know which will happen, but I've got my eyes open enough to see the preparatory steps that are being made for “what must be done”.
That illustration is based on one in Adbusters by the way. Theirs is more convincing and disturbing. Anyway, you know the lyrics…
Yeah you laugh till your motherfuckin ass gets drafted
While you're at band camp thinkin the crap can't happen
'Til you fuck around, get an anthrax napkin
Inside a package wrapped in Saran Wrap wrappin
Open the plastic and then you stand back gaspin
Fuckin assassins, hijackin Amtraks, crashin
All this terror, America demands action
Next thing you know, you've got Uncle Sam's ass askin
to join the Army or what you'll do for their Navy
You just a baby, gettin recruited at eighteen
You're on a plane now, eatin their food and their baked beans
I'm twenty-eight, they gon
take you 'fore they take me
Crazy insane, or insane crazy?
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