Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the Libertarian Institute. We need a limited military draft, says military.com. You know, I am so grateful that people are in large part against things like forcing other people to pick cotton against their will. It's terribly immoral. Absolutely evil.
However, forcing someone to perform military service where they're more likely to get PTSD, get their limbs blown off, get killed, This appears to me to be far worse than than something like for Scott and Picking. However, both are bad, but I could be totally wrong. Let's hear out military.com to see what they have to say. It's time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military. Okay. The 1st 2 words are propaganda.
Usually When people say it's time, usually it's going to be something completely a historical. And it's going to be something completely unprincipled because you could say in 1981 the Soviets have crushed the Polish Solidarity movement, The Soviets are moving westward. This is a great atrocity. It's time to invoke military conscription because we really need to take these people on.
In 1983, you could have said, well, the Soviets just shot down a civilian aircraft with a sitting Congressman Larry McDonald on board, referred to as Korean Airlines flight 007. But we can only address this if we have a huge military and we
can't rely on volunteers. So at any point in history, you can say either we're really safe and now is the time to have the draft because it's not endangering too many people and we're only safe because of the military in a time of war, Well, we're it's very dangerous out there. We need a military draft. So that is usually what it's time means. Also, if it's inherently justified, why is now any different than 50 years ago, 100 years ago, completely unprincipled?
He also refers to it as our military doesn't seem like ours. I feel like I don't get much input when it comes to the Pentagon. All the wars that they're engaged in, I have opposed and they don't really call me and say, hey Keith, is this something you'd like us to do? What would you like to fund this? Because if you don't want to fund it, you can opt out of funding it. Of course they require you to fund it through coercive taxation, so I don't know how
it's ours. It certainly seems like a separate entity considering they have the right to force us to fund them and we don't have the right to force them to fund us, article continues. Since 1775, our nation has used a combination of volunteers and draftees. I will say I appreciate he uses the example or the dichotomy rather of volunteers and draftees. Another if, in other words, if people aren't volunteering and
giving their time voluntarily. The opposite of that is being drafted to meet our National Defense personnel needs. Are they needs or wants? Vietnam, Korea, When you say needs, does that mean the country's going to die? Cease to exist? It these seem like a lot of
wants rather than needs. Even in 1775, there are plenty of nations like Australia or South Africa or Canada who were part of the British Empire, and without the significant military conflict we're able to secure their independence. These feel like wants, not needs. Meet our National Defense personnel needs, especially in a time of crisis. Today the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs.
Need this. We will die without it. Not a want. It's required. Just because something is a need doesn't mean you get to coerce people into it. Farming is an absolute need. Is that Okay? If Tyson Chicken and all the farming companies force people to perform labor against their will, We need cars, we need houses. Does that mean housing and construction companies have the right to coerce people to perform labor to provide these
needs? So even if you agree that it is a need, which it isn't, doesn't justify you coercing people to do such a thing. But after two decades of war, both of which ended on success unsuccessfully. So this is an organization that just is about needs, and the needs were unsuccessfully met. And the solution to this is not to make sure people can opt out of funding the military or opt out of joining it. They need to require people to engage in this unsuccessful adventure.
After two decades of war, both of which ended unsuccessfully, and low unemployment, many experts believe that the all volunteer Force has reached a breaking .0 okay. I'm convinced the experts believe the experts have spoken. The science says that we can't just allow people to interact voluntarily, and American confidence in its military is at a low. So when the confidence in your organization is bad, it's time to start forcing people to associate more with it. Not for you to change.
No, you're just meeting the needs of the nation. No other people need to be forced to interact with you. See, when you do a good job, then it's okay to force people to interact with you because you're doing a good thing. And when you're doing a bad job with your your last two wars have ended unsuccessfully well, then you need to force people to associate with you. Heads, I win. Tails you lose. The fastest and most effective way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we
recruit. It's just a change, you know, sort of like Barack Obama ran on hope and change. We just need to change something. There's no principles that we should abide by. We just need change. It's going to be fast and most effective in invoking economic efficiency when forcing people to perform labor against their will. Instead of an either instead of an either, an all voluntary force or fully conscripted force model, I propose a both and solution. OK, this is the fallacy of
equilibrium. We don't want to be extremists. We want a little bit of this and a little bit of that. We want to meet right in the middle. This is like saying, well, I don't want to never steal. I don't want to always steal. So I guess I should steal sometimes. And I guess if the a happy medium is something that's justified. I don't want to always, you know, dodge the draft. I don't want to never dodge the draft. So maybe half the people should dodge the draft.
Half the time we should have our military recruiters sign up new troops for 11 months out of the year and then have the Selective Service draft the delta between the military's needs and the total number recruited. Okay, this model would alleviate, oh, he's just trying to alleviate us. It's going to be fast. It's going to be efficient. If it's meeting needs and it's alleviating.
He's really doing you a favor. I I need to send this man to thank you note, alleviate the incredible pressure on our recruiters. So it's not that they need to provide a better service. They don't need to improve their organization at all. They're actually under a lot of pressure. Lower the cost of finding new troops. Oh yes, but military only gets like, you know, a trillion dollars a year in in
expenditures. They're just really worried about the cost and significantly reduce the much decried civilian military gap. The fact that a gap exists is nothing terrible. There's a huge gap between pilots and customers of airlines. Some pilots will fly thousands and thousands of times and other people will never fly a plane in their entire life. So what? Nothing terrible about that.
The much decried civilian military gap by subjugating all of America's, Subjugating all of America's youth, that that's a good way to put it, rich and poor, to the possibility of military service via the draft? Okay. So This is why progressives playing the class warfare game is so evil, because then someone can come in and say you know what, you're right, the problem is the rich. Therefore we got to make them pay as well and have something
like this. So when progressives never talk about anything like the non aggression principle, this is totally in line with with what they advocate. Cuz you know it's not it's not wrong that the military initiates violence against peaceful people in Yemen, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The problem is the rich are benefiting so this opens you up to class warfare nonsense. This increased public interest might also have the added effect of increasing public pressure to
prevent open-ended wars. So they don't prevent openended wars when people voluntarily associate with them. But when you have to associate with them, well, then they're
going to do a good job. You know, we were going to do a bad job, but I guess we could do a good job if we force people to associate with US-led by unaccountable senior leaders like we experience in our national debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's important to know that while Iraq is usually seen as the throwaway, OK, yes, Iraq was a blunder. The war in Afghanistan was also completely unjustified in October 14th of 2001.
Here is the guardian Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over President George Bush rejected as non negotiable in offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan. Returning to the White House after a weekend at Camp David, the president said the bombing would not stop unless the ruling Taliban turn bin Laden over, turn his cohorts over, turn any hostages they hold over, he added.
There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty up. The experts have spoken. They know he's guilty. In Jalalabad, Deputy Prime Minister Aji Abdul Kabir, the third most powerful figure in the ruling Taliban regime, told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that bin Laden was behind the September 11th terrorist attack in the US, but added we would be ready to hand him over to a third country. So they could have avoided that.
That was one of the needless wars that the author mentions, and they didn't do it when people were voluntarily joining the military. But if they coerce you and you don't have the right to opt out, then they'll start making really good decisions. It's important to know Afghanistan was completely unnecessary as well. So when it comes to meeting our military needs, these are not needs. These are wants for military industrial interests. And it's not like it's only you
know them who benefit. Tons of soldiers get the amazing retirement packages and everything for the only a few years of work. Article Continues While the causes of our current recruiting crisis are many, the fastest and best solution, fast, efficient he's alleviating, it's the best solution lies within our already existing Selective Service System. This would obviously represent a seismic change given the more recent history of military
drafts. In 1973, the draft was abolished with the establishment of an all volunteer force, driven largely by the American public's weariness with our debacle in Vietnam, so two unsuccessful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They concede that Vietnam was a debacle, not inherently immoral because they murdered a lot of civilians in Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia and, you know, 58,000 American troops died in a war that was based on a Gulf of Tonkin fake incident. No, no. This was just a debacle.
See, when other countries murder civilians, it's inherently evil and we got to go to war. When the Pentagon and the US regime murder innocent people, that was a debacle. That that was an accident. Basically, more or less systemic inequities in the draft Okay. And this is where we get the inequality myth coming back. Yeah, there are a lot of inequalities in the world. As if the existence of inequalities justifies performing forced labor against
your will. Systemic inequities in the draft example, wealthier Americans being able to defer service, and the fact that the size of our population has become so large in relation to the needs of the military. Universal drafting became obsolete. While the ALL Volunteer force had the effect of lowering discipline problems and professionalizing the force, it also created a vast gap between American citizens and those who
serve. This is a disgusting division where, just like under COVID, they said some people are essential workers. And then there's other people. That's extremely divisive for someone who wants to close the gap between members of our Democratic Republic. He's actively saying there are people who serve and then there's American citizens. The people who work at restaurants do a great deal of serving and they give us food
which is required to live. Car mechanics give me car assistance, which allow me to get to work and have a life. Those are great services as well.
Let's not pretend that the military is completely unique in that aspect, effectively creating a military warrior cast that now appears more like a multigenerational family business than an organization that represents the true makeup of our Democratic Republic. If you want to represent the Democratic Republic, you want to make sure that people have the freedom to disassociate with your organization. Because if you're forcing someone to associate with you,
you don't know. Maybe they like you. Maybe they love you, maybe they hate you. But if they don't have the recognized right to opt out of funding it or participating with it, then it actually doesn't reflect what people actually want. It's like saying I want to see if people really like this ice cream shop I'm opening up. Therefore I'm going to require people to be my customer and require them to eat the ice
cream. Well, that's not how you see if you represent them, you offer them something voluntarily. And if they like, if they say they like it, if they're returned customers, then that's a good indicator that you're actually representing them. The establishment of the All Volunteer Force also drove the military to expend an incredible amount of resources in terms of manpower and dollars to build a recruiting machine to attract America's youth to service.
Yes, So what? It's like, you know what? If I can't get women to voluntarily date me, I'm going to have to start coercing them because, I mean, I spend so much time trying to get their attention and my business, I spend so much time on marketing that it's really a waste. I should just be able to force people to give me money and force people to be my customers because, you know, I expend an incredible amount of resources in terms of manpower and
dollars. Considering it costs about $15,000 to recruit each new member, the overall cost each year exceeds 2 billion. So they don't need to provide a better service. They don't need to be more honest, they don't need to declassify documents, They don't have to change anything on their side of the equation. What they have to do is start forcing us to associate with them, and recruitment has risen and fallen with the national
unemployment rate. The causes of this crisis are many, and both politicians and our national leadership are largely to blame. Credit to this sentence right there, not bad. For nearly a decade, feckless politicians using the military as a club to batter their opponents have exacerbated increasing negative public opinion, despite the fact that our military has crushed international terrorism and prevented another large scale attack on our homeland for 22 years.
Crushed international terrorism. So according to CIA analysts, September 11th or around September of 2001 there were about 400 members of Al Qaeda, 400 Mujahideen fighters who answered to Osama bin Laden. There were 10s of thousands of fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, going as far as the Philippines. In some cases. They didn't crush it. They actually exacerbated it. Here is an example of of why it was exacerbated.
Osama bin Laden wrote a message to the American people, American people. My speech to you is about the best way of avoiding a repeat performance of Manhattan, as well as the causes and consequences of the war. By way of introduction, let me say that security is an indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claims that we hate
freedom, if that were true. Then let him explain to us why we do not attack Sweden. For example, freedom haters do not possess defiant spirits like those of the 19. May God have mercy on them. No, we fight because we are free men who do not slumber under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, and just as you lay waste to our nation, we shall lay waste to yours.
Only a witless wrongdoer plays with the security of others and then fools himself into thinking he will be secure, whereas rational people, when disaster strikes, make it a priority to
look for its causes. God knows we would never have thought of striking the towers had we not seen such tyranny and oppression from the American Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon. So this is bin Laden going on explaining that state terrorism is called freedom and democracy, while resistance is terrorism and intolerance.
This means that millions of people must suffer oppression and embargo until death results, as inflicted by Bush senior in Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children ever. So it was actually the military interventions of Iraq, support for Israel and occupation of the land of Mecca and Medina to bomb places like Iraq and enforce the starvation blockade That is actually what caused the terrorism that this author is claiming that the state protects us against.
Also large scale attack. Barack Obama did call the Pulse nightclub massacre, the single largest shooting in American history, even though the shooting at Wounded Knee killed far more people. But even the Pulse nightclub murderer Omar Mateen, who got on the phone with the FBI and said tell America to stop bombing Iraq and Syria, they're killing too many women and children. Tell the US to stop collaborating with Russia. The drone strike, the drone
strikes need to stop. They're killing too many women and children. That was clearly an example of blowback, as was 911 and the existence of Al Qaeda. So yeah, the entire War on Terror was completely avoidable and is the fault of the US government. Article continues despite this success.
Again, not a success. There were far more Mujahideen fighters as a causal result of the War on Terror than there were before in 2023. Every service except the Marine Corps is poised to miss its recruitment goals. We're not getting what we want. We don't have to change. You people have to be forced to associate with us. In 2022, the army alone fell short by 15,000 recruits. The needs of the nation must be met. Great non sequitur. All right The the food needs of
the nations must be met. Therefore, farming companies have the right to enslave people to work for them. Housing needs need to be met. Therefore, construction companies have the right to force people to perform construction against their will. Complete non sequitur and our national leadership would be wise to reinforce the idea that military service is an important responsibility of citizenship. Yeah, parenting is a important responsibility.
Having a job, being kind to others is a vitally important responsibility of citizenship. Does not mean you get to coerce people and put them in a cage if they resist, threatening to kill them if they resist. Being put in the cage for not wanting to fight in wars based on lies, which you've conceded are unnecessary debacles. While conscription has always been a controversial issue, yes, yeah, slavery is controversial. Forced labor, I would say, is a little controversial throughout
our history. A hybrid model of he's just finding a happy equilibrium. He's not really taking a side. He's saying we need balance. We can't have no murder. Also, we can't murder everyone. Therefore, we should murder some people. Would alleviate our current military manpower crisis, increase the connectivity between the American public and its military, and more responsibly use taxpayer dollars?
No, that's not responsive. That's irresponsible to coerce people to do things against their will. Goals in our military formations are in fact gaps in our national security, so they really need to keep the nation safe and keep it free. And the way to do that is to engage in the greatest violation of freedom known to man, which is kidnapping and enslavement and forced labor under the most dire circumstances for theft, funded wars based on lies.
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