WEAK on National Security: Bush leaves USA with ZERO combat units not already in Afghanistan or Iraq...

A TERRIFIC short, little post by Mark Kleiman over at HuffingtonPost reveals the TRUE agenda of the Bush-Cheney-NeoCon-NeoConfederate Right-Wing in America: PUSH America into situations of international WEAKNESS (via illegal, corrupt wars, incompetent economic policies, possibly even PROVOKING terrorist attacks, as Mr. Bush INGNORED the Al Qaida threat in August of 2001 - and than as America becomes more ENDANGERED, call up a draft, and shfit over to a full-on war economy.

Politically, for now, the Right-Wing is opposed to RATIONING, a war-tax, and the draft, because it would politically counter their "FREE MARKET" private property rhetoric and loose even more support for their policies than they have already lost.

BUT if America WERE in a World War II type FULL-WAR ECONOMY, the Republican (and Democrat) Right-Wing COULD IMPOSE all the above: RATIONING, war-taxation, THE DRAFT, and POLICE STATE rule, even to prohibiting protests!

THIS IS THE HOLY GRAIL of the Radical Right-Wing, the IDEAL of those neo-Confederates who are unapologetic about SLAVERY and who look back fondly on the SEGREGATION era (where LYNCH MOBS were effectively STATE SANCTIONED extra-legal violence, reprisal, and intimidations), or of those neo-conservatives who DESIRE an apartheid national security state as exists in Israel and Israeli occupied Palestine today.

Republican Right-Wingers who support incarcerating TWO MILLION Americans in the "war on drugs" are not, of course, ideologically opposed to a wartime draft - they are just politically opposed to it, for now, because it would be unpopular and detract from their power.

But at one time, trying to dismantle Social Security was considered the "THIRD RAIL" of American politics, and for trying to destroy it, Mr. Bush has only lost a one-vote majority in the US Senate, and a slim 15 vote majority in the Congress. (And that due more to his appalling war leadership than his attacks on Social Security.)

Republicans WOULD LOVE to DRAFT millions of Americans, an involuntary draft being as close as SLAVERY as they can get.

While all the above editorializing might be considered PARANOID BABBLING, one fact is indisputable: The US military has ZERO combat infantry reserves not already committed to combat.

THAT IS NOT "STRONG" ON NATIONAL SECURITY!

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Weak on national security
by Mark Kleiman
26 December 2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/weak-on-national-security_b_37198.html



The United States currently has no combat-ready units not already deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Aren't you glad we have a President who's devoted to protecting the national security? Imagine how much worse things would be if we had elected a Democrat instead.

Oh, wait. How much lower could we go than zero available units?

Somehow, I doubt the "security moms" are going to be pleased to hear this