proclaims Jeff Jacoby in today's column. Jeff thinks Israel has gone soft at a time when they are in deadly peril from their bumptious Arab neighbors.
We-ell maybe so....but even in their current alleged torpor, the Israelis are like the Frickin' Klingon's compared to the United States!
They are at least having a serious and honest internal debate over national security, they at least have a draft and a revenue structure equal to the challenge.
America on the other hand just sits and watches the whole mishaugas on TV! Thanks to our all-volunteer army and thrifty Chinese ownership of our vast public debt nobody has to the slightest sacrifice as our war policy spirals towards disaster in Iraq.
It has long been Humble Elias' thesis that one of the reasons this war perpetuates itself is because other than the Pentagon, the poor grunts on the ground (plus their families natch)and the admin itself; no one in the US electorate is invested personally in the conflict.
If the current policy required a top rate of 80% (which is how FDR financed WW 2) or a fairly adminstered draft, we'd be gone out of Iraq in a month...count on it.
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