Blogging to Warren Zevon may depress me, but blogging to Johnny Cash makes me extremely belligerent: I just deleted a truly obnoxious post about Senator Chuck Hagel’s guarded endorsement of the draft. Alas, I’m supposed to be the nice Right Wing Death Beast, so let’s just say that I consider conscription to be neither wise nor moral and leave it at that.
(Via Atrios, of* all people. Go figure)
*UPDATE: Not-actually-a-Freudian-slip,-really fixed.
“off all people”
Now that’s putting the Death in DeathBeast.
I say bring on the draft or pay soldiers enough so the draft’s not needed. Some of the billions going to those-who-we-won’t-call-mercenaries might help.
“Now that’s putting the Death in DeathBeast.”
D’OH! I’d better go fix that, actually.
I would delete my comments at Atrios regarding this issue, too, but I (the left-wing death beast who’s not very nice) don’t have the self control you do, Moe.
Johnny Cash’ll do that to ya!
“Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won’t answer any more
Not the whiskey drinkin’ Indian
Or the Marine that went to war”
Well, I have one situation where I’m in favor of enforced service. I call it the “You want it, you got it” act of 2004. If any congressperson votes for military action against some country, they are immediately inducted into the military where they get to show their convictions by fighting in it themselves. I guarantee that congresspeople will really think before they go off blowing people up. Failing that, I propose a new international conflict resolution method.
Two world leaders
Two swords
One man leaves alive
Two men enter! One man leave!
“Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” got ya down, Moe?
“The Hula Hula Boys”, actually. It’s too nice a day to load up “Indifference of Heaven”.