{"id":715,"date":"2003-01-28T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=715"},"modified":"2006-05-31T17:45:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T01:45:58","slug":"since-were-all-pawns-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"since we&#8217;re all pawns anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,76737,00.html\">FOXNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n Sen. Ernest Hollings said Monday a return of military conscription is necessary to strengthen a military spread thin by its global duties and would show that the people stand behind any decision by the president to make war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the Army going to war. It&#8217;s the country going to war,&#8221; Hollings, D-S.C., said at a news conference with Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., Congress&#8217; most vocal supporter of a return of the draft.\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> What sort of mind equates compulsion with consensus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Later.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrhenderson.com\/articles\/0199_thankyou.html\">David Henderson<\/a> relays this exchange, from the end of the previous draft:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n In his testimony before the commission, [William] Westmoreland said he did not want to command an army of mercenaries.  [Milton] Friedman interrupted, &#8220;General, would you rather command an army of slaves?&#8221;  Mr. Westmoreland replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves.&#8221;  Mr. Friedman then retorted, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries.  If they are mercenaries, then I, sir, am a mercenary professor, and you, sir, are a mercenary general; we are served by mercenary physicians, we use a mercenary lawyer, and we get our meat from a mercenary butcher.&#8221;\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOXNews.com Sen. Ernest Hollings said Monday a return of military conscription is necessary to strengthen a military spread thin by its global duties and would show that the people stand behind any decision by the president to make war. &#8220;It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}