The Corner on National Review Online
Recall that Obama has said: “But it’s also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months. And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it’s important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.”
Oh, yes. Please, please, please! I can think of no better way to destroy his presidency and rip the Democrat party into shreds than by reinstituting human slavery, ie., the draft.
Go for it, Hussein! Go!
UPDATE: And who better to reintroduce slavery in the United States than the First Black President, Hussein the Messiah?
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What on Earth are you talking about, Bill? The halcyon days of rampant Liberal progress, the 60s, were characterized by the draft. Surely those days would return if the draft returns.
Speaking solely for myself, I’d be pissed if the 60s return. I was too young to catch the freewheeling sexual freedom the first time around and I’m too old to fully enjoy it if it comes back. Damned Liberals, can’t get anything right.
Don’t bitch too much Steve. At least you also missed Herpes, the Love bug.
Besides, how could you recreate the 60’s without Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin?
I would liked to have been at Woodstock in ‘69 and Monterey in ‘68. Both concerts happened in a way that can not be deliberately recreated.
No, no, Genes, the love bug was the pubic crab. Herpes was the gift that kept on giving.
As for Woodstock, etc., not that lots of schmucks didn’t try.
Wasn’t the term “Happening” used to describe such actual events?
Genes had it right. Herpes, the Love Bug was a White Jismy movie.
I could have sworn I saw posters in Head shops that said “Herpes, The Love Bug”. But that was almost 40 years ago.
Steve, no link to the movie?
NSFW. Sorry, got standards to maintain.
OK, what have you done with the real SteveF? Where’s the pod?
I do have to wonder, though. I was born in the late 60s, so I don’t remember, but I’ve always been a little startled that, although the draft began during LBJ’s administration, somehow Vietnam became “Nixon’s war”. I assume that, with the media’s help, any draft instituted by Obama would somehow become the fault of the Republicans…
Probably because you were born a bit late, Tom, you’re not “remembering” what actually was going on during those days.
“Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?”
It started out as LBJ’s war, and it cost him his job. I was very much involved in the entire effort to unseat him. In fact, it never really became “Nixon’s War” in the sense that we all regarded it as “LBJ’s War.”
That only happened in retrospect, with the Lefty/Gramscian demonization of Nixon after he left office.
No, actually the draft was never stopped after World War II. Even when we weren’t at war it pulled in all kinds of people, notably Elvis Presley (in 1958).
Thanks, OG. I was gonna mention that, but I forgot.
Actually, Nixon presided over the end of the war - and had for his first term run partly on the promise to end it. Congresscritters were, of course, primarily responsible for the final collapse of the South Viet government (which was, admittedly, profoundly corrupt from all accounts), as they killed off the funding that was keeping the “Vietnamization” alive and the South Viet military equipped and in the game.
Viet Nam was JFK’s and LBJ’s war, mostly Johnson’s - he vastly enlarged and widened what Kennedy had only started, then proceeded to thoroughly fuck it up - though a lot of Democrats don’t really like to remember it that way.
Nixon ran for re-election, as I recall, partly on the strength of having ended direct U.S. involvement in the war - I was a local precinct rep in Michigan during his first term and part of his second term.
I can also testify to the draft being active throughout the period - I nearly got sucked into involuntary military service in late-’68; went back to school (graduate program) full-time, and lost my deferment (I was a schoolteacher back then), ended up being re-classified due to physical reasons.
Mostly an unhappy era for a lot of just-folks…