by John Stanton
"...Evil minds that plot destruction.
Sorcerers of death's destruction. In the keeps turning. In the fields
the bodies burning as the war machine keeps turning...Politicians hide
themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they go out to
fight? They leave that role to the poor." Black Sabbath,War Pigs
Oh, it's out there. It is the US government's Selective
Service/Draft program that currently requires all males 18 years of age
to willingly sign up for the opportunity to have the US government
force them, under penalty of law, to work for the government in a
killing and maiming capacity (military employment), or in a supporting
role for those who are on the front lines doing the US government's
dirty work in far away lands and, who knows, perhaps here in the USA.
The Selective Service/Draft system us
in sort of a state of suspended animation to be used only when a
national crisis forces the US government to dig into the pool of bodies
when the volunteer military force can't handle the load placed on them
by the requirements of its own government or the enemy. Open conflict
with Russia, China or an intervention to stabilize a collapsed Mexican
government/economy would likely necessitate activation of the Selective
Service/Draft.apparatus. Already the US national security machinery is
stretched to the breaking point with active duty and national guard
personnel seeing multiple rotations to conflict zones on every
continent. Domestically, the support network-including communities,
families, volunteer organizations--for returning military personnel
suffering from debilitating injuries to mind and body is nearly broken
,aided and abetted by greedy private contractors looking to make money not alleviate the suffering of the veterans.
Politicians and military commanders fear
the activation of the Selective Service/Draft lottery as they would
lose the ability to respond to the disgruntled or abused soldier, " You
are the one who volunteered." This even though study after study shows
the much ballyhooed volunteer military force exists largely because the
civilian marketplace has no need for low-level labor (as it continues to
jettison labor, Target
for example) or the military marketing campaign that pushes the myth
that military service trumps that of civilian law enforcement and first
res ponders who keep American communities as :"free and safe" as
possible.
According to Mint Press,
'"The military also seems to be drawing recruits who have less
education, as a recent report documented the percentage of new recruits
entering the Army with a high school diploma dropped to a new low. The
study, which was conducted by the National Priorities Project
(NPP), found slightly more than 70 percent of new recruits joining the
active duty Army had a high school diploma, nearly 20 percentage points
lower than the Army's goal of at least 90 percent. Army officials
confirmed lowering their standards to meet high recruiting goals in the
middle of ongoing conflicts that the U.S. was involved in around the
world. Massachusetts-based research NPP concluded that the number of
high school graduates among new recruits fell to 70.7 percent in 2008.
"The trend is clear," Anita Dancs, the project's research director who
based the report on Defense Department data released via the Freedom of
Information Act, [indicated],"They're missing their benchmarks, and I
think it's strongly linked to the impact [of] the Iraq War." The study
also found that the number of recruits with both a high school diploma
and a score in the upper half on the military's qualification test fell
by 15 percent from 2004 to 2007. An analysis of recruiting data revealed
that low- and middle-income families are supplying far more Army
recruits than families with incomes of more than $60,000 a year.'"
War Pigs: You are Fungible
There are too many War Pigs to count.
According to CNN "Former Texas governor Rick Perry wants US troops to go
and fight ISIS in the Middle East. He terms the group "the face of
evil." Senator Lindsay Graham, a former military litigator, said this at
an AIPAC conference, " And if military force is ever employed [against
Iran], it should be done in a decisive fashion. The Iranian government's
ability to wage conventional warfare against its neighbors and our
troops in the region should not exist. They should not have one plane
that can fly or one ship that can float." That means that the US
"volunteers" will be responsible for eliminating all the Iranians who
operate such machinery. One assumes that Graham also thinks no armored
vehicles or missile systems or small arms should exist either. The US
military would need more than a volunteer force to totally defeat Iran
and would c;likely contemplate the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
Graham is clearly on the edge of insanity's black hole as are his fellow
Hawks.
On that note, American War Pigs want to
sell lethal weaponry to its puppet government in Ukraine and actually
want to get into combat with Russian troops. Chairman of the US Joint
Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin Dempsey said, "I think we should
absolutely consider lethal aid..." according to Time Magazine. That means private contractors are needed to sell the machinery and train the Ukrainian personnel.
Women will not long be exempt from
Selective Service/Draft registration. It is only the continued dominance
of the patriarchs that dominate US society that prevents women from
shouldering the burden that men face with their Selective Service
responsibility. Sean Kennedy writing for Collegian
Central indicated that when Congress lifted the ban on women in combat
in 2013, many people expressed concern that the inclusion of women would
somehow degrade the quality of our military forces. Enter US Senator
John McCain, War Pig extraordinaire and the the same American
representative who glad-handed Ukrainian neo-Nazi and anti-Semite Oleh
Tyahnybok in a show of support. "Senator John McCain
urged special forces units to ensure that their "rigorous physical
standards" are maintained. Never mind that women make up 15 percent of
our military or that women have fought for our country as early as the
Civil War. While there are certainly physical differences between men
and women, the argument that this disparity is enough to warrant the
exclusion of women is ludicrous and the perfect example of the mindset
we need to distance ourselves from as a country."
Not to worry. If a war with Russia or
China breaks out, or with some as yet some unforeseen enemy, McCain and
his ilk will be the first to turn to the Selective Service/Draft system
to force women to fill the ranks of dead and wounded US military males.
The American war machine
is positioning itself for large scale conflict. Every able-bodied
American citizen, female and male, will be needed for the carnage.
Just wait and see.
John Stanton
John Stanton is a writer from Virginia. Reach him at captainkong22@gmail.com
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