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November 20, 2006

Drafting reality

In shooting down Congressman Rangel's call for reinstituting the draft Nancy Pelosi said that Rangel was trying to underscore that the U.S. war effort should be a "shared sacrifice" and his legislation was "a way to make that point."

I don't see how Pelosi could have arrived at that conclussion unless she is completely ignorant of Rangel's actual position on the subject. Seems to me that Rangel is essentially calling the bluff of unrealistic foreign policy.

Over the weekend, Rangel said he would seek passage next year of the universal draft legislation he has long sought. "If we're going to challenge Iran and challenge North Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops to Iraq, we can't do that without a draft," Rangel said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

There's nothing about "shared sacrifice" there at all. Rangel is simply being realistic. Either we bring back the draft so that we can pursue all of these nations or we stop trying to unilaterally be the world's cop. Shit or get off the pot, in other words.

Posted by Kevin at November 20, 2006 11:25 AM