{"id":6599,"date":"2010-07-02T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2010-07-02T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:00:19","slug":"can-mr-ratigan-or-mr-obama-have-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/can-mr-ratigan-or-mr-obama-have-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Mr. Ratigan or Mr. Obama Have Alex?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instapundit links<\/a> to this bit<\/a> about an MSNBC personality advocating the draft, again:<\/p>\n

\n<\/object><\/p?\n\nProfessor Reynolds hits one of his usual memes with:\n\n\n\n
\nTHEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE\u2019D BE TALKING ABOUT RESTORING THE DRAFT. And they were right!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m reminded of this MoveOn ad denying John McCain’s use of Alex:<\/p>\n

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I wonder if MoveOn would be okay with Mr. Obama having Alex, but that’s idle speculation on my part. It’s two years later, after all. Even Alex’s mother might be looking to send her toddler in his terrible threes to military boarding preschool.<\/p>\n

The left always wants to frighten young men and women with the fears of a draft, but I think this will lose efficacy as the draft recedes in living memory and the horrors of Vietnam fade.<\/p>\n

A draft compelling young people to serve together would probably act against the left’s divide-and-rule strategy of segregating citizens into aggrieved interest groups. When all 25-year-olds have served in the military, they might have a better shared American experience and perspective. I don’t think that would serve the left very well at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instapundit links to this bit about an MSNBC personality advocating the draft, again:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}