Conscription is Responsible Citizenship

Conscription is Responsible Citizenship

Monday, November 20^th, 2006

America is under attack, and not just by Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the hostile nation-states that sponsor them, but also by protectionism through the European Union, a very hostile international media apparatus, special interest groups with foreign ideas operating on American soil, and old ideas that seek to keep us entrenched within an intellectual and ideological trap that emerged from the Vietnam experience.

The United States is the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. Many nation-states envy us because of our ability to make laws and stand by them through our foundation in the US Constitution, our free-market ingenuity, our compassionate and giving people and our willingness to defend our country from authoritarian and totalitarian enemies and other aggressors.

Since the well-deserved fall of Communism in the early 1990s however, the United States has found itself greatly entwined in international affairs on a level our country has never experienced before. We have always shared geopolitical concerns with other free states across the world but the key here is that we also shared responsibilities for those activities. Since the fall of communist totalitarianism, the United States is becoming increasingly isolated in the international community for unjust and illogical reasons.

The newly formed European Union, comprised of member states that were at the forefront of western efforts to isolate and contain communist expansionism for over four decades, now sits back without judgment in the War on Terrorism and endlessly critiques the United States for engaging radical Islam. The hostile European media apparatus fuels the divide between Europe and the United States, while the US media acts in concert with European propaganda cells.

One can understand European efforts to disassociate themselves from an expensive and resource-intensive war against radical Islam. European economies have been leveraged to pay for their vast socialist programs. Europe has created an economic system that Adolf Hitler was trying to implement through the German National Socialist State’s Thousand Year Reich plan. It is simply astounding that Europe has adopted this economic and governance model.

Europe cannot afford to assist the United States in engaging fundamentalist Islam around the world because European economies are so economically strapped with socialist and other leftist programs. What this means for the United States is that European states have been forced to fall back upon two distinct political outcomes.

The first possible political choice for European states is to declare an alliance with the United States in the War on Terrorism, but then express dismay at their inability to fund a long war. So even though some European states have said that they are with the United States as we engage fundamentalist Islam, the real ability of those states to actually contribute substantive assistance to the war simply doesn’t exist. Those states are too addicted to their Utopian socialist economies to change them, even at their own peril.

The second possible political choice for European nation-states, and one that countries such as France and Spain have already decided to undertake, is to totally remove themselves from any effort in alliance with the United States in the War on Terrorism. France and Spain couldn’t sign on with the United States both for economic reasons and domestic political concerns. A very large radical Islamic population now inhabits large portions of France and Spain. Recent riots in France that swept through the entire perimeter of the country and coordinated from Iran sent the message to French leadership cells that any deviation from the Islamic model would be met with severe consequences for France. In Spain, the terrorist attacks on Spanish train systems caused the Spanish President to immediately rebuke any assistance to the United States in the War on Terrorism.

As Islamic populations convert more European states through use of force, intimidation and well-planned terror, American allies in the War on Terrorism will decrease exponentially over time.

In the midst of these ominous global developments, Congressman Charles Rangel of New York made a remarkable announcement. Congressman Rangel said that he was going to submit legislation to create a “military draft” for the War on Terrorism. Congressman Rangel claims that if the United States used conscription for its military forces instead of our current volunteer system, the United States would be less likely to become involved in international conflict because draftees would be less likely to accept an unjust war. Arguments at this point about what constitutes a just and unjust war are not really an issue. More important points must be drawn from Congressman Rangel’s position.

As a Reagan Republican, I completely agree with Congressman Rangel’s assertion that we need to reinstate the draft. I say that not because I still, to this day, live the Army Values, or found military service in the United States Army rewarding as a young man, but make my observations from a strategic assessment that I believe Congressman Rangel understands but will not reveal to a media that is hostile to the idea of America.

Volunteer armies allow great institutions such as the United States Army to perfect personnel and training systems that have allowed our country to field the most powerful military force in human history. The citizen “volunteer” is that individual that has willingly come forward to swear an oath to defend the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. To “volunteer” means to “give” of “one’s own free will”. That is what volunteering means.

However, we have lost our way in defining a citizen’s responsibility to the nation-state, to our written constitution. The United States has allowed a hostile psyop effort to define conscription and recruitment for US military forces for far too long, and this hostile psyop has its roots from the activities of communist change agents operating domestically during the Vietnam War. As a nation, we have allowed a redefining of conscription and service to the nation as one of “volunteerism”, a “negotiable” and “participatory” activity of the citizen that must be approved solely by the eligible citizen. If the citizen “decides” not to volunteer, they do not volunteer. They do not serve and we are led to believe that government can do nothing about it.

The dangerous fallacy inherent with this communist-defined psyop that has plagued the United States for decades is that the volunteer military force that the United States constructs to defend this nation cannot rely on other Americans to adequately stand with them in times of war. This is a redefining of citizenship and a citizen’s responsibility to the US Constitution. What this psyop does to our soldiers and our military institutions is thus: “If America goes to war, it does so with volunteers alone.”

That is the perfect recipe for class-warfare as defined by Marx and Engels. The United States has allowed the far-left to define conscription and service in defense of the US Constitution, instead of the US Congress. When volunteers in the US Armed Forces gather to train and prepare for war, they do not expect to be abandoned on the battlefield when the going gets tough. A volunteer military force is only sustainable for wars of short duration. Persistent conflicts degrade volunteer armies because there are not enough replacements to reconstitute those armies. This is the objective of the hostile psyop that has targeted conscription efforts by the US government since Vietnam.

I suspect that even though Congressman Rangel has not illustrated these points as I have that he must be thinking about them. As a veteran of the Korean War, a man who was wounded in action and received medals for heroism, Congressman Rangel understands the importance of conscription by the nation-state and the duty of US citizens to the US Constitution.

Conscription then is a higher politic and non-negotiable by the citizen. Conscription draws from all population clusters of the nation-state regardless of class and creates environments of acceptance and integration. Volunteerism when combined with military service in times of war creates segregation in the nation-state system by class.

To correct this problem, conscription for military service in the US Armed Forces needs to be reconstituted in times of war. Just because a citizen of the United States “volunteers” for military service does not mean they should have to go it alone on the battlefield when the American nation-state is in danger. It is the responsibility of every able-bodied American male to stand with those that initially volunteered as a first line of defense in America’s hour of need.

OPORD Analytical fully supports Congressman Rangel’s efforts to reconstitute military draft legislation in the US Congress.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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