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October 22, 2004
Perpetual War for Perpetual War
Today at LewRockwell.com, Jim Lobe writes about the looming draft to meet all the military commitments of the Bush administration, which denies a draft is in the cards. There's nothing particularly startling about that revelation. There is, however, one particularly disconcerting nugget tucked into this article:
Suggestions that a draft may once again be in the cards were boosted significantly late last month when the Defense Science Board, a panel of mainly right-wing and Republican national-security advisers to Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, concluded, "inadequate total numbers" of troops mean that the United States "cannot sustain our current and projected global stabilization commitments."
It noted that, given current plans and commitments, Washington is likely to be engaged in significant military interventions involving some stabilization function every other year, on average.
Be prepared for a war to happen at least every other year--and that's just "given current plans and commitments." If we end up with more preemptive wars, which will only further destabilize things, we could be in for perpetual war for perpetual war.
Conservatives will cheer such an eventuality as long as a Republican is in the White House, and liberals will cheer as long as a Democrat is in the White House. The few principled war opponents among us will be, as usual, left out in the cold.
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 22, 2004 09:20 AM