They want you! They want you! They want you as a new recruit!
Not the Onion, alas; as seen atop the NYT home page; were I more the artist, I should do a self-rendering of my pointing finger up the arse of a wincing Uncle Sam; apparently, in soliciting the latest fruit of that hardiest of perennials of my life as an elite opinion-watcher, the call for a full-on reanimation of selective/universal involuntary service, the NYT must have found a vacation message returned by Charlie Rangel, primus inter pares among draft-yes men:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Someonewrote:
Are we starting with the kids of the 3 federal branches first?
So we can see how good the kids of one branch are at following ... executive orders ... of the next at obeying martial law ... and of the third at avoiding courts-martial.*
*The "Honorable" and "Talented" Mr. Gingrich gets a deferment here, having gained extensive experience - arising, of course, from his claimed excessive love of country - during his brave and harrowing years of service enduring the war-is-hell privations of marital law, and the resulting courts-marital upon his "inappropriate" insubordination therein.
OP-ED | THOMAS E. RICKS
Let’s Draft Our Kids
Requiring national service will improve our military and save money.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Someone
Are we starting with the kids of the 3 federal branches first?
So we can see how good the kids of one branch are at following ... executive orders ... of the next at obeying martial law ... and of the third at avoiding courts-martial.*
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