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The stupid...it burns....
Jul. 8th, 2008 06:26 pmJonah Goldberg compares Obama's plan to tie national service to student aid to slavery.
Leaving aside entirely the sheer, blinding idiocy of comparing an African-American to a slave owner, Mr. Goldberg is forgetting that we used to have this little thing called the draft, which compelled an entire generation of young men to submit themselves to the possibility of military service regardless of their personal feelings (and still might, since draft registration is mandatory for 18 year old males). Then again, he is a Republican and thus hails from a party with a long and undistinguished tradition of its most hawkish members finding a way to *avoid* military service,* so it may be simply that he's unhappy that the old draft-avoidance standby of college and graduate school is now threatened with the horrors of volunteering.
*the one notable exception being, of course, John McCain.
Leaving aside entirely the sheer, blinding idiocy of comparing an African-American to a slave owner, Mr. Goldberg is forgetting that we used to have this little thing called the draft, which compelled an entire generation of young men to submit themselves to the possibility of military service regardless of their personal feelings (and still might, since draft registration is mandatory for 18 year old males). Then again, he is a Republican and thus hails from a party with a long and undistinguished tradition of its most hawkish members finding a way to *avoid* military service,* so it may be simply that he's unhappy that the old draft-avoidance standby of college and graduate school is now threatened with the horrors of volunteering.
*the one notable exception being, of course, John McCain.
