Written by Becky Akers
You remember McChrystal. He lied about Cpl. Pat Tillman’s death in 2004, then last summer blabbed to Rolling Stone exactly how inept Obama and his minions are. Which was great stuff, and undoubtedly as much truth as we’ll ever get from one of the Pentagon’s puppets. But it cost him his job. So we might conclude his loquacity was a tad ill-advised.
We might also wonder why Newsweek’s editors deemed the prattle of this lying fool worthy of national publication.
Obviously, McChrystal defines “critical, selfless service to our country” far differently than do those of us paying his bills. Forget the plumber who repairs your overflowing toilet, the pastor whose wise counsel holds your marriage together, the chemists who developed and the clerks selling the painkiller that tames your migraine, the supermarket’s in-house baker who decorates your daughter’s birthday cake so adroitly she claps her 6-year-old hands with delight. These folks work for us rather than for the army McChrystal once commanded and the government he worships, so their skills, dedication, and conscientious labor don’t count.
Besides, I suspect you’re like me: you’d rather eat — well and deliciously, if possible — than slaughter foreigners who’ve never harmed us. Which renders the “service” of a single grocer or restaurateur far more “critical…to our country” than that of whole platoons bombing Baghdad.
McChrystal’s solution to such humble and peaceable preoccupations is “national service” — though he waits until the fourth paragraph to name it. And for good reason: despots from Stalin to Mao to Kennedy to Obama have prized this tired old statist scheme. They’ve disguised it with a multitude of euphemisms and aliases: the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Hitler Youth, the Komsomoi, the Communist Youth League of China, Israeli Defense Forces. By whatever designation, national service enslaves people to the State, sometimes by outright force (Israel requires all citizens to enroll in its army) and sometimes with bribes or by playing on idealism, à la the Peace Corps.
National service is also totalitarians’ tacit admission that their public schools have failed. Everyone knows said schools don’t educate, but national service is evidence that they can’t even propagandize adequately. Ergo, Leviathan craves further opportunities to indoctrinate kids. That’s easy if they join the military after graduation — but what if they don’t? McChrystal whines, “We have let the concept of service become dangerously narrow, often associated only with the military. This allows most Americans to avoid the sense of responsibility essential for us to care for our nation — and for each other.” What rank and arrogant insult to every parent and grandparent, spouse, fiancée, sibling, uncle and aunt, cousin, or friend.
Read more:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/becky-akers/6249-national-slavery
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