03/28/05

True patriots would oppose the Jacobin agenda of Global Cop and demand that America stick to its founding principles. But the authors cannot imagine America without 'its mantle of global leadership' and regard enslaving youth in the service of the state as a small price to pay. The authors are probably correct that the neoconservatives' war plans cannot be undertaken with the present U.S. force structure. The neocons thought that in Iraq all the U.S. had to do was defeat a poorly equipped army. They overlooked that insurgency is a different kind of fighting. To deal with insurgencies requires vast numbers of troops and practices that tend to produce more insurgents. When the draft army fails to impose America's will on the world, we will hear the case for 'usable nukes...

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=5354


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp