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In reply to the discussion: Sunday mouthpieces all say too many tours in war zone is bad, but none admit we need a draft. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)You put the wealthy's blood and treasure on the table along with that of the chickenhawks and war will be an unattractive option. Some will spare their own blood but not their treasure but I notice over the last few generations the wealthy have been far less inclined than decades and centuries past to put their progeny on the line.
Too many are too seperated from the costs to temper their passions and to seek more difficult constructs for solutions.
War must become a profit killer that may well leave you without heirs. I think remotes of all sorts must be banned. I think that our flag pin wearing, ribbon tying conservatives need to come out of pocket in addition to saluting and thanking service.
War must have grave fiscal and physical risks for everyone or it is too easy to get into and too hard to get out of. We have fought in AfPak for longer than it took to break the Axis powers. That's right a barely organized enemy with nary a ship, tank, or a plane with membership in the low thousands has kept us longer than Hitler, Mosilini, and the emperor of Japan altogether and the threats posed and resources that could be brought to bear are not even in the same universe.
We are in a period that war can go on until the economy that supports it crashes completely out with no real benchmarks that indicate victory.