I came across this piece on Scott Adam's blog and found it quite interesting. Thought others here might find it interesting too:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133406477506/global-gender-war#_=_
So if you are wondering how men become cold-blooded killers, it isn't religion that is doing it. If you put me in that situation, I can say with confidence I would sign up for suicide bomb duty. And I'm not even a believer. Men like hugging better than they like killing. But if you take away my access to hugging, I will probably start killing, just to feel something. I'm designed that way. I'm a normal boy. And I make no apology for it.
Now consider the controversy over the Syrian immigrants. The photos show mostly men of fighting age. No one cares about adult men, so a 1% chance of a hidden terrorist in the group – who might someday kill women and children – is unacceptable. I have twice blogged on the idea of siphoning out the women and small kids from the Caliphate and leaving millions of innocent adult men to suffer and die. I don't recall anyone complaining about leaving millions of innocent adult males to horrible suffering. In this country, any solution to a problem that involves killing millions of adult men is automatically on the table.
If you kill infidels, you will be rewarded with virgins in heaven. But if you kill your own leaders today – the ones holding the leash on your balls – you can have access to women tomorrow. And tomorrow is sooner.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 21 2015, @04:54AM
Actually - I don't think it was the draft, so much as the reasons for the draft. Draftees or volunteers didn't much matter, it was deemed a huge waste to send our young men overseas to die for utterly stupid reasons that benefitted no one at all. If/when we face an existential threat, the draft will come back, and relatively few people will bitch about it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2015, @01:46PM
And why should anyone in their right minds be so happy to be forced by their government to go to war against a menace their same wicked government created? A more effective way of stopping such problems in the future would be bringing to justice the evil psychopaths who thought it was a good idea.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis.html [washingtonsblog.com]
http://nypost.com/2015/05/30/how-the-us-created-the-camp-where-isis-was-born/ [nypost.com]
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq [theguardian.com]
http://time.com/4117585/paris-attacks-isis-war/ [time.com]
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/the-u-s-government-supplied-isis-iconic-pickup-trucks.html [washingtonsblog.com]
Many of those "rebel groups" the US armed became friendly with the ISIS or even joined them.
"We can't fight on the crusaders' side against a Muslim. Allah said in the Koran that 'those who support them become one of them.'"
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/06/world/meast/isis-al-nusra-syria/ [cnn.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 21 2015, @02:55PM
Different day, different time, different enemy. I was referring to how willingly the population will accept the draft in the face of an existential threat. ISIS poses no real threat to me and mine, today. It DOES represent a threat to large segments of the European population. It represents a gigantic threat to mid-Eastern populations. Regarding the draft - the US has no draft today. The Kurds, on the other hand, seem to be mobilizing a huge part of it's population. Europe? I guess most of Europe has no draft, but suddenly, France, among others, is seeing a tremendous increase in volunteers.
Acceptance of the draft is dependent on perception.