Atheist Meditations

When I first read a few years ago that the great Noam Chomsky had opposed the elimination of the draft I had to do a double take. Hunh?!? The draft, perhaps one of the greatest displays of the prerogative of the ruling class to treat us members of the working class a fucking tools - how can the abolition of such a nasty institution be a bad thing?

Tearing the innocent youth from the arms of their girlfriends (who are put'n out) so that they can get their balls blown off in a war that has goals only a small handful of the ruling class gives a shit about - securing access to a lucrative market, destroying the natives who are trying to organize and prevent the destruction of their homeland over the minerals beneath it - no, the draft is about something else. Like whipping a slave, the draft is something you subject your population to every once in a while to keep them in line. Learn Your Place, Boy! Me and my children do the fly'n, you and yours do the dye'n.



But Mr. Chomsky thinks about things with a focused brain.

He had already considered the trends of the technological age. Modern militaries (the kind that fucking totally kick ass) are backed up by the low hanging nuts of a motherfucker of an economy (that's you and me shopping at Sears) which produces weapons so un-fucking-believably powerful (we're talking nukes or the A-10 here.) One does not need trenches full of warm bodies anymore, what's needed is an technologically intensive miltary with a small number of highly trained soldiers to execute orders. It's been pretty fucking obvious for the last few decades that air superiority equals omnipotence. It all comes down to Top Gun - whoever has the best jet fighters will control the air. It will come down to a few hundred of the best trained (stimmed up) pilots flying the most expensive, technologically advanced machines ever to exist.

I've heard some damn good theories that slavery didn't end because a few too many Americans started 'really reading their bibles,' it had more to do with the industrial revolution - can't trust those damn monkeys around all the expensive machines. Same with the civil rights movement, American's didn't suddenly grow past racism - the commies were killing us with propaganda of our cops setting dogs on people; that was like castling, a defensive adjustment that had to be made.

I'd wager the elimination of the draft had more to do with those sort of forces than any bullshit about liberalism and a young man's rights.

So the military of today be a lot different from the days of Benedict Arnold. So are the fucking wars.

So just as we once decided not to stand in front of the redcoats, instead sniping at their officers in violation of all european military traditions; now many other cultures are devising tactics that attempt to minimize the usefulness of air superiority.

It's like a mick cop trying to clean up the streets of the godfather, he's going to make you fight for every single cornor - and he'll exploit racial violence to do it.

Without even considering the motivations of our foes in the Middle East, the tactics they use should be pretty fucking obvious. They will never challenge the air superiority of either Israel or the U.S. Whatever actions they attempt to take, they will be made with the primary goal of escaping sudden death from above.

Like obsessive compulsive middle age women are insuring the death of our species by constantly killing 99.99% of 'germs on any surface', so for sure that one freak mutant that can survive our primary bacteriacides will enjoy an awesome advantage and will surely lead to a new immune strain - so too with Israel. They've been just free-balling it for the last fifty years with the air-force of Yahweh. They can kill just about anybody at anytime and have been striving to drive that point home to the stupid arabs since the fucking six day war. Only the most resourceful of tactics and fanatical of motivating ideologies are going to survive.

For the slow on the uptake, that's Hezbollah and the insurgancy in Iraq. Not that they have anything in common, except the willingness to incorporate whatever tactics will not get them blown to fucking hell by a laser guided missile. Pretty slick how Hezbollah's similar to the mafia, they are a force to be reckon'd with, but they ain't got no capital to bomb, no clearly defined loved ones to kill in retribution. . .

The best stratagy for resisting the will of 'national interests' is the Hezbollah model. Israel's refusal to stop terrorizing the arabs has set the time table for the evolution of this model.

So this new model requires checkpoints and 'boots on the ground.' Regardless of why we went into Afganistan (oil pipeline) or Iraq (oil) , the new model for international conflict once again requires more than a few hundred fighter pilots and some rather bloodthirsty special ops teams.
The sorts of wars Bush is starting cost fucking human lives. I don't know what the fuck Clinton was doing in the Balkans, perhaps he really did want to 'prevent a genocide' - all I know is we didn't lose a single soldier's life. That's boring enought that I'm not curious about just who got bombed and why. Iraq seems pretty obvious - fuck up a country with lots of oil, and the oil in the rest of the world just got a lot more valuable - and it's a war that chews up lives.

I'm a liberal, so the deaths of Iraqi children also bothers me. But I ask you, 'how many American testicles have been blown into bits and lost in the fucking sands of Iraq?' These guys are giving up their sex organs because they want America to have a strong military. Under a large number of pragmatic analysis that's a noble motivation. Nations' that don't have young men willing to make such sacrifices often don't survive.

Now they think they're done after their third tour and Bush recalls their sorry old asses again?!?
Bring back the fucking draft! If this war is so worth fighting, let a few more of our 300 million population share the burden of this conflict.

Put your own nuts on the line. Our highly specialized military has given enough. For the stupidest fucking war ever - Christians with guns in the heart of the Holy Land, you couldn't play into Osama's hand any more if you tried -

I wonder how many Americans have promised themselves that they'd beat Tucker Carlson to death if they ever got the chance? Regardless of the consequences?