On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > How can we spread the burden of current wars more fairly, hasten the end of > the wars, and make future wars less likely, without compelling Americans to > participate directly in unjust wars? By instituting a wartime national > service draft. A universal time tax will disproportionately inconvenience > the super-rich, who will use their disproportionate political influence to > make war less likely. > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/for-a-dreamy-wartime-nati_b_762757.html
My take: pretty obviously you don't intend it as a serious proposal, because it has no more political chance of being passed than a Draft, and if a path opened to change that the political energy it would take would be better spent on ending the wars directly. So I think we can only judge it as a rhetorical device. And as an answer to Gate's rhetoric, your rhetoric is pretty good.. It has some emotional appeal, but is also a good frame on which you were able to hang some facts. So I think it is good in this particular context. Not a good long term frame - too indirect. I would not like to see it pursued further. But quite good as a one-shot. > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > > Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from > Afghanistan > http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Grist Blog: http://www.grist.org/member/1598 Static page: http://www.nohairshirts.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
