Columnist: Draft is needed because we may have to invade Pakistan

[meegbear]

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."

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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Blankley_Reinstate_draft_for_Pakistan_invasion_0112.html

[villager]

1. You first, Tony...

Oh wait: You're another Chickenhawk.

[roguevalley]

10. Tony Blankley is a fat assed fool. Send him to Pakistan with a

spork. Show us how the he men do it, you fat assed scumbag.

[BOSSHOG]

2. If conservatives were as brave and patriotic

as they tell each they are (in the safety of their own neighborhoods) a draft would not be necessary to carry on the never ending war that makes said conservatives masturbate in their basements. Wow blankley says we should have sent more troops to Iraq to start with JUST WHAT GENERAL SHINSEKI SAID AND HE WAS FIRED BY SOMEONE WITH CONSERVATIVE VALUES TONY.

[JVS]

3. Not invading is needed in order that we not need a draft.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. !

:thumbsup:

[gratuitous]

5. We're right behind you, Tony

You seem a bit soft and in need of some gritification. Why don't you do a few rotations in Iraq and Afghanistan and show us all how it's done? I'd hate to think of you failing to exploit your energy.

[Democrats_win]

6. Does he really think America will invade Pakistan?

Pakistan is now more democratic than when bush made them a big ally.

No question they need to get their act together--big time and fast. But does anyone see US invading THEM? What about India? They would do it for us.

Even before we did something, I would imagine our best move would be to seriously bomb the border area. Probably using nuclear weapons to clear out that nest of radical Islamists. Of course that would be the last thing we would do. Heck, Pakistan or India should consider that option now. They would be better off. For now: Status quo.

[spanone]

7. tony blankley, the insane washington times reporter..but seriously folks

[mod mom]

8. Needing soldiers to fight their "profitable" wars is why they are killing the middle class.

Once people start feeling comfortable, they have no desire to fight for the war profiteers.

Send your own kids and those of the war profiteers you support, Blakely!

[Winterblues]

9. Why does he think anyone cares what he thinks?

He has been wrong on virtually everything he has said, as most every Conservative has. They just plain don't know what they are talking about and yet we keep getting their line of crap week after week, month after month, year after year and yet they are never correct.. Why does it keep going on?

[Lautremont]

11. I 'm going jihad-y out there at the lake!