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‘You Don’t Have to Wear a Military Uniform to Serve Your Country’ [Mandatory National Service]
The Atlantic ^ | July 20, 2016 | Stanley A. McChrystal

Posted on 07/20/2016 6:47:07 AM PDT by C19fan

In 1838, a 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln declared that the greatest threat facing America comes not from a foreign invader:

If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: draft; mcchrystal
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To: C19fan
Unneeded, unnecessary..

Obama in his Turd Term will be recruiting the OBAMA NATIONAL POLICE to replace all current police...... Sarc.

21 posted on 07/20/2016 7:20:42 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: C19fan

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...........


22 posted on 07/20/2016 7:22:50 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle

The rats want these national service types to get the same benefits as our military.


23 posted on 07/20/2016 7:26:44 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: C19fan

In a free society, nothing should be mandatory other than obeying just laws.


24 posted on 07/20/2016 7:28:52 AM PDT by MNnice
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To: C19fan
hmmmm.....where have I seen this idea before?


25 posted on 07/20/2016 7:34:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

I believe in military conscription but not this. I would probably help the birthrate though as I am sure all the suburban girls pulled into national service would soon be having the rates of out of wedlock births as their sisters in uniform.


26 posted on 07/20/2016 7:36:30 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: L,TOWM

Every dollar spend on something like this will be a dollar that could have gone to restore the military.


27 posted on 07/20/2016 7:38:24 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: RightGeek

Agreed. Taking productive people out of the workforce to do various civil projects is a greater waste.
A better solution is saying if you’re on welfare/SSDI and semi-capable, you’re picking up trash on the side of the road or parks a couple hours a week. Yes, this requires tying mandatory contraception to welfare benefits, which we should do anyway, so that someone can’t say I can’t work because there is yet another baby.
Want SSDI because you’re depressed at an inability to find work? We’ll have you cleaning public venues for money instead.


28 posted on 07/20/2016 7:40:04 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: MNnice

Totally stupid. Think Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Tiger Woods. They did their one year service attending elite universities and paying for it themselves. They found out it was not for them. No need for more indoctrination.


29 posted on 07/20/2016 7:40:47 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DesertRhino

LOL.


30 posted on 07/20/2016 7:40:49 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: oh8eleven
"I've been saying it for decades - draft men and women to serve for two years - military or "peace corps" service - and all time served must be in a third world country."

We do NOT need the functionally stupid in the military. Let them borrow $70,000 for a degree in Art History, instead.

31 posted on 07/20/2016 7:45:37 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: KeyLargo

They look just like groups I have seen in Africa, and once the first gun fired a shot, they were scrambling around and running away like a bunch of bugs in the kitchen when the light was thrown on.


32 posted on 07/20/2016 7:48:28 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: jonascord
We do NOT need the functionally stupid in the military.
Never said we had to lower the standards.
33 posted on 07/20/2016 8:01:13 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: wbarmy

34 posted on 07/20/2016 8:09:31 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: C19fan

Generals and admirals are make effective military leaders but dangerous politicians. Our founders understood this when they established civilian authority over our armed forces. Of necessity, the military is a socialistic society in which all the basics of life are provided so that all energies may be devoted to training and fighting. Most flag officers view this artificial universe as normal — along with their juniors’ unquestioning deference and obedience to their authority and commands. With rare exceptions, a free society should not entrust such men with the reigns of political power, at least until they have proven over time to have embraced free markets and the strict Constitutional limits on the role of our armed forces.


35 posted on 07/20/2016 8:22:21 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: C19fan

Forced labor for the masses, Chritian teenagers sent to abortion mills to “assist” in the murder of the unborn.

NO FORCED GOVERNMENT LABOR TO INDOCTRINATE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN TO SOCIALISM/FASCISM.


36 posted on 07/20/2016 8:24:27 AM PDT by stockpirate (Make America Mexico Again - MAMA end sarcasm)
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To: KeyLargo

Obama in his Turd Term will be recruiting the OBAMA NATIONAL POLICE to replace all current police...... Sarc.

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When that happens, I will consider starting a chapter of W.L.M.


37 posted on 07/20/2016 8:26:28 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (There's a race war raging, I didn't start it but I have chosen sides.)
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To: MNnice

In a free society, nothing should be mandatory other than obeying just laws.

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And paying taxes?


38 posted on 07/20/2016 8:27:59 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (There's a race war raging, I didn't start it but I have chosen sides.)
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To: DesertRhino

If you make it worth my while and clear it with my employer, no problem.


39 posted on 07/20/2016 8:40:02 AM PDT by L,TOWM (There is no longer a system to work within.)
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To: MSF BU

Or will be a dollar not spent on the SUV driving welfare queen using an EBT card to get bon-bons to watch Oprah with.


40 posted on 07/20/2016 8:42:52 AM PDT by L,TOWM (There is no longer a system to work within.)
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