A modest proposal....

clipped from www.nytimes.com A Fearful Price By BOB HERBERT The reason it is so easy for the U.S. to declare wars, and to continue fighting year after year after year, is because so few Americans feel the actual pain of those wars. We’ve been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan longer than we fought in World Wars I and II combined. If voters had to choose right now between instituting a draft or exiting Afghanistan and Iraq, the troops would be out of those two countries in a heartbeat. I don’t think our current way of waging war, which is pretty easy-breezy for most citizens, is what the architects of America had in mind. Here’s George Washington’s view, for example: “It must be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal service to the defense of it.”

Since 99.99% of our fellow citizens are content, fat, and happy with other people's children being blown up, shot, killed, and maimed maybe we should see if the Hessians are still available and we can just pay the foreigners to die for us instead of our own.

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