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The Coming Draft and Bush's Middle East Plans
(Kurt Nimmo, www.dissidentvoice.org, June 14, 2005)
"Ephraim Halevy, the former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service and the current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, says plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence in the Middle East lasting decades," al-Jazeera reports. "High-ranking U.S. policymakers have 'raised the idea of establishing an American trusteeship regime in the areas of the Palestinian Authority, if it should turn out that the Palestinians are not ripe for self-rule. That arrangement would require an American operational military presence along Israel’s border with the Palestinian territories.' " . . . since the Arab demographic trend is against the Israelis (Arabs have more kids than Israelis) and there is no way the Israelis will ever have enough soldiers to muster an "operational military presence" on the so-called border, it will be up to your kids and your kids' kids (since Halevy says this will last decades) to keep the Arabs in check (and suffering from malnutrition and disease). . . . But wait. It’s worse. . . . "U.S. entanglement in the Middle East in the name of 'democracy' has further destabilized the region and made more likely violent revolutions to occur, especially in countries such as Saudi Arabia," notes al-Jazeera. "In [an early April] visit to the United States," remarked Halevy, "I was told by several well-informed observers that should one of the more severe scenarios come to pass, the United States will have no choice but to deepen its presence in the Middle East. To that end, it will have to renew the draft, to ensure that there are enough forces to deal with developing situations in countries like Saudi Arabia. . . . Speaking in a semi-closed forum during a visit to Israel a few months ago," continued Halevy, "Bill Kristol, one of the most influential 'neocons' in the United States, noted in this connection that the American presence in Europe after World War II lasted for nearly 60 years. Israelis who are trying to promote a role for NATO in the region, in one form or another, are actually promoting a generation-long American presence. . . . The war-strained all-volunteer U.S. military has a growing manpower problem and a cross-section of Washington policymakers has proposed a solution -- increase the size of the regular military by 30,000, 40,000 or even 100, 000 or more," the San Francisco Chronicle opined in April. "The military draft, which coughed up its last conscript in 1973, could make a comeback if recruiting doesn’t pick up and if America's commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan turn into long-term occupations or if the Bush administration's tough-minded foreign policy means military action in places like Iran or North Korea," or Saudi Arabia and "Israel’s border with the Palestinian territories," as indicated by the straight talking Ephraim Halevy. In January, Bill Kristol signed a Project for the New American Century letter addressed to Congress demanding the government takes "steps necessary to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps," in other words a return to the draft, since dangling paltry bonuses and go-to-college-free tickets in the faces of high school students does not do the trick. The PNAC, of course, are the folks who brought us the invasion and occupation of Iraq, predicated on lies and dissembling. . . . Like I said, suit up the kids in body armor -- or move to New Zealand.

posted by LoZo 3:51 PM