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Title: Conservative Columnist Tony Blankley: Draft Is Needed Because We May Have To Invade Pakistan
Source: Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Blank ... or_Pakistan_invasion_0112.html
Published: Jan 14, 2009
Author: David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Post Date: 2009-01-14 13:56:03 by Brian S
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Comments: 41

Conservative columnist Tony Blankley foresees a dangerous future, in which the United States will be able to ensure its own survival only through a universal military draft and may routinely have to commit hundreds of thousands of troops to overseas excursions, including a potential invasion of Pakistan.

Blankley, a former Reagan speechwriter and Newt Gingrich press secretary, is the author of The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? (2005) which raised the specter of a Europe dominated by radical Islam. His new book is called American Grit.

"If we don't do a lot of things smart and tough, we could get overwhelmed," Blankley told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Monday. "We've failed to exploit our energy. We're not paying enough attention to what our kids are learning -- Bill Ayers is actually a senior person in guiding the curriculum design of America."

One of Blankley's more eye-catching proposals in American Grit is that all eighteen year olds should be subject to two years of required military service.

"I don't like it, I love the volunteer army ... but we don't have enough troops," Blankley explained. "When George Bush wanted to have the surge, he was told by the senior generals we didn't have the extra 20,000 troops to finish the war. ... Now Obama wants to go to Afghanistan ... but he says we don't have the troops unless we pull them out of Iraq. What happens if Pakistan goes jihad-y? We don't have the troops to go in there and stop them from taking over the nuclear weapons."

"If we had had enough troops in Iraq, we wouldn't have lost 4,000 great young men and women," Blankley concluded. "We needed to flood the field ... with 300,000 troops occupying every village and every building and they would never have been able to rise up."

It seems possible, however, that Blankley is promoting a universal military draft not just as the necessary pre-requisite for adventures overseas but also as a means of making young Americans "grittier."

In a Washington Times editorial, written just before November's election, Blankley bemoaned the endorsement of Obama by "me-too conservatives" and suggested that "the conservative movement we start re-building on the ashes of November 4th (even if Mr. McCain wins) will have little use for over-written, over-delicate commentary."

"The new conservative movement will be facing a political opponent that will soon reveal itself to be both multiculturalists and Euro-socialist," Blankley wrote. "We will be engaged in a struggle to the political death for the soul of the country. ... I will certainly do what I can to make it a big-tent conservative movement. But just as in every great cause, one question has to be answered correctly: Whose side are you on, comrade?"

a. Reagan loathed the draft and spoke out against it. How did Blankley stay in his job as Reagan's speech writer, without absorbing some of Reagan's views on the subject?

b. Oh yes, this is a very practical thing to do when you have started a war for lies, get more US soldiers killed for nothing. Put more targets on the ground - that was such a successful strategy in Vietnam, another illegal war we under took for lies.

c. Why discriminate based on age? Heck, Tony, let's have ALL able-bodied Americans ages 18-63 be subject to 2 years of compulsory military service and since the men and women at the high end of the age scale are no longer productive members of society and are nearing a time when they'll be drawing health and pension benefits and be a draw on society, let's subject ages 50 - 63 first, with your fat ass leading the way. Left, right, Tony, left, right.

Neoconservatives like to enlist Reagan as one of theirs, which is easy to do when someone's dead and not able to disagree. They conveniently ignore the fact that Reagan was not only against the draft, but was a true believer in multilateral nuclear disarmament (unlike the neocons, who think that only the countries they don't like should be prevented from having nukes).

Neocon Columnist Calls For Military Draft, Cites Possible Invasion Of Pakistan

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Neocon Columnist Calls For Military Draft, Cites Possible Invasion Of
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Says “new American nationalism” needed for survival

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2009

A Washington Times columnist has claimed that a universal military draft is a key necessity if America is to survive throughout and beyond the 21st century.

Tony Blankley, also a former Reagan speechwriter, a former Newt Gingrich press secretary, and currently a Fellow at right wing think tank the Heritage Foundation, makes the call in his new book American Grit.

Blankley says that the US needs a “new nationalism that puts America’s survival first.”

In his opinion this equates to subjecting all eighteen year olds to two years of required military service.

“If we don’t do a lot of things smart and tough, we could get overwhelmed by the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of radical Islam.” Blankley told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Monday.

“We’ve failed to exploit our energy. We’re not paying enough attention to what our kids are learning — Bill Ayers is actually a senior person in guiding the curriculum design of America.” he said.

“I don’t like it, I love the volunteer army … but we don’t have enough troops,” Blankley stated.

“When George Bush wanted to have the surge, he was told by the senior generals we didn’t have the extra 20,000 troops to finish the war. … Now Obama wants to go to Afghanistan … but he says we don’t have the troops unless we pull them out of Iraq. What happens if Pakistan goes jihadi? We don’t have the troops to go in there and stop them from taking over the nuclear weapons.”

“If we had had enough troops in Iraq, we wouldn’t have lost 4,000 great young men and women,” Blankley claimed. “We needed to flood the field … with 300,000 troops occupying every village and every building and they would never have been able to rise up.”

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Blankley has previously rejected that notion that he is a neoconservative, claiming that he is a traditional conservative in the mold of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

However, his militaristic views clearly dovetail with classic neoconservative doctrine espoused by bodies such as the Project For A New American Century, the think tank that was home to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz among others, prior to their placements within the Bush Administration.

Using rhetoric almost identical to the neocon label “Islamofascist”, Blankley has previously compared modern Islamists to Nazis, claiming that they are attempting to take over Europe. Blankley has also argued that racial and ethnic profiling are regrettable but acceptable government practices in times of war.

Blankley’s previous book, The West’s Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?, even cites Samuel P. Huntington, author of Clash Of Civilizations, regarded by many to be one of the archetypal neocon texts.

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Historians neglect to tell you that one person that he banned was not a Jew, his own father who was acting as a straw man for Jews.