tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post7213445392505746638..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Friday Afternoon Roundup -The Barack that Didn't BarkDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90888303941609910592012-07-16T09:20:17.799-04:002012-07-16T09:20:17.799-04:00"Gojira what happened"?!?!?
"I'..."Gojira what happened"?!?!?<br />"I've been sick".<br />LOL!Christopher Darren Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04538037046604165738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-82125287495629987292012-07-15T22:23:44.319-04:002012-07-15T22:23:44.319-04:00and 90 percent of the army would basically be a cr...and 90 percent of the army would basically be a cross between UN peacekeepers and the peace corpsDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38359026052435699922012-07-15T22:17:39.958-04:002012-07-15T22:17:39.958-04:00Ron, Daniel: Interesting points made by both of y...Ron, Daniel: Interesting points made by both of you. If it's true that the Left is pushing for a slave army – a military force of American janissaries or mamluks – this is an even more insidious trend. Yes, our Middle East policy is a colossal failure. Perhaps it was meant to be, so that the Muslim Brotherhood could gain ground in the Middle East. (I just read that Hillary Clinton was "tomatoed" and "shoe-ed" in Cairo by protestors who suspect the U.S. engineered the rise of the MB over Egypt. Not surprising, as she's been yukking it up with the MB and the OIC and everyone knows it.). And it explains also Thomas Ricks's trial balloon call for across-the-board conscription of American youth to serve in various capacities as janissaries. Probably the calls for a new draft will accelerate as the MSM picks up the theme song.Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-61819595510900468862012-07-14T22:07:39.213-04:002012-07-14T22:07:39.213-04:00Edward, they've realized that their plans are ...Edward, they've realized that their plans are too grandiose to be economically feasible, so they need a slave army<br /><br />Ron, interesting connection that you've made with the shift to a right2protect armyDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-37834202247497442742012-07-14T16:33:06.139-04:002012-07-14T16:33:06.139-04:00One of the reasons I am opposed to the new push fo...One of the reasons I am opposed to the new push for a comprehensive Israeli draft on Haredim is because I recognize that most of their opposition to serving in the IDF, whether right or wrong, is based on ideological grounds. To force a man to do a thing or to work with a thing he is opposed to on moral grounds is simply wrong.<br /><br />That being said, this push by the NYT writer is just obscene. Daniel, you have nailed it on the head by naming it as a call for a slave army. But I think you missed one point of why they are pushing for this.<br /><br />My impression at this point is that the Middle East adventure has been a colossal failure. Whether because the basic concept of the enterprise was flawed, the execution was misguided, or we were simply unable to do it, regardless, a lot of troops are making it clear to the next generation that this is not something they want to sign up for.<br /><br />The main advantage, the absolutely most important advantage of a volunteer army is that you cannot fight a war the people are opposed to. People will simply not sign up. It is clear at this stage, that while the initial intention for the Iraq/Afghan adventure was to a great degree motivated by honest thinking, there is also a great deal of financial interest.<br /><br />We were not there only to kill the bad guys and bring puppies and freedom to the poor natives.<br /><br />Nor did we bomb the hell out of Libya for any reason past economic ones. Nor did we pull out the rug from under the Egyptians for democracy. There is some shady scheming going on since the Bush administration, and it has clearly been planned for some time. That's nothing new, business and shady political interests have colluded in war for as long as there have been wars.<br /><br />But when they are aware of the situation, Men are not willing to die for such nonsense.<br /><br />Which is why you are beginning to hear leftists call for a draft. Whether because the corporate interests that control their papers want, or because this is some left wing trick, they are publishing such crap so the US can continue what is nothing less than imperialism.<br /><br />Look, I don't like sounding like one of those 60's hippies that are protesting against The Man, but that's clearly what's going on.<br /><br />Ironically, those same hipsters are now asking for a slave army.ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-43792717723576131902012-07-14T08:43:08.716-04:002012-07-14T08:43:08.716-04:00Daniel: First, I think there's a troll at lar...Daniel: First, I think there's a troll at large, this "Chuck" person who commented here and who is either a Muslim in drag or a Woodstockian whose brain is careening on LSD or a similar reality-altering medication.<br /><br />However, your comments on Thomas R. Ricks are spot-on. Ricks's "imaginations" for instituting a new draft of the young comport well with the Democratic desire to turn the country into fascist society in which all serve all and those who don't "volunteer" to serve or who resist conscription will be left to sleep under bridges in discarded cardboard containers. Conscription is a prescription for slavery. Ricks is probably enamored of that awful Denise Richards vehicle, "Starship Troopers," in which boys and girls donned combat gear to fight telekinetic insects from across the galaxy. In exchange for that "service," and if they survived, they'd get free college education and other societal perks, as well. Or perhaps Ricks dreamed up his scheme from having watched Occupy Wall Streeters.Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.com