1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,560 Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,680 Libertarian Institute. We need a limited military 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:12,360 draft, says military.com. You know, I am so grateful that 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,880 people are in large part against things like forcing other people 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:18,560 to pick cotton against their will. 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,560 It's terribly immoral. Absolutely evil. 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,720 However, forcing someone to perform military service where 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,960 they're more likely to get PTSD, get their limbs blown off, get 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:36,800 killed, This appears to me to be far worse than than something 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,800 like for Scott and Picking. However, both are bad, but I 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,000 could be totally wrong. Let's hear out military.com to 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,040 see what they have to say. It's time to change how our 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,040 country fills the ranks of our military. 14 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,590 Okay. The 1st 2 words are propaganda. 15 00:00:54,590 --> 00:00:59,790 Usually When people say it's time, usually it's going to be 16 00:00:59,790 --> 00:01:01,830 something completely a historical. 17 00:01:02,230 --> 00:01:05,069 And it's going to be something completely unprincipled because 18 00:01:05,069 --> 00:01:09,550 you could say in 1981 the Soviets have crushed the Polish 19 00:01:09,550 --> 00:01:12,990 Solidarity movement, The Soviets are moving westward. 20 00:01:13,030 --> 00:01:16,990 This is a great atrocity. It's time to invoke military 21 00:01:16,990 --> 00:01:20,190 conscription because we really need to take these people on. 22 00:01:20,190 --> 00:01:24,880 In 1983, you could have said, well, the Soviets just shot down 23 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,040 a civilian aircraft with a sitting Congressman Larry 24 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,440 McDonald on board, referred to as Korean Airlines flight 007. 25 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,720 But we can only address this if we have a huge military and we 26 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,440 can't rely on volunteers. So at any point in history, you 27 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:46,360 can say either we're really safe and now is the time to have the 28 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,480 draft because it's not endangering too many people and 29 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,680 we're only safe because of the military in a time of war, Well, 30 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,520 we're it's very dangerous out there. 31 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,920 We need a military draft. So that is usually what it's 32 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,080 time means. Also, if it's inherently 33 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,120 justified, why is now any different than 50 years ago, 100 34 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,080 years ago, completely unprincipled? 35 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:14,950 He also refers to it as our military doesn't seem like ours. 36 00:02:14,950 --> 00:02:19,190 I feel like I don't get much input when it comes to the 37 00:02:19,950 --> 00:02:24,510 Pentagon. All the wars that they're 38 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:28,190 engaged in, I have opposed and they don't really call me and 39 00:02:28,190 --> 00:02:31,710 say, hey Keith, is this something you'd like us to do? 40 00:02:31,710 --> 00:02:33,270 What would you like to fund this? 41 00:02:33,510 --> 00:02:35,430 Because if you don't want to fund it, you can opt out of 42 00:02:35,430 --> 00:02:37,990 funding it. Of course they require you to 43 00:02:37,990 --> 00:02:41,900 fund it through coercive taxation, so I don't know how 44 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:43,660 it's ours. It certainly seems like a 45 00:02:43,980 --> 00:02:47,580 separate entity considering they have the right to force us to 46 00:02:47,580 --> 00:02:51,460 fund them and we don't have the right to force them to fund us, 47 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:57,660 article continues. Since 1775, our nation has used 48 00:02:57,660 --> 00:03:01,140 a combination of volunteers and draftees. 49 00:03:01,820 --> 00:03:08,540 I will say I appreciate he uses the example or the dichotomy 50 00:03:08,540 --> 00:03:11,930 rather of volunteers and draftees. 51 00:03:11,930 --> 00:03:15,690 Another if, in other words, if people aren't volunteering and 52 00:03:15,690 --> 00:03:19,890 giving their time voluntarily. The opposite of that is being 53 00:03:19,890 --> 00:03:25,570 drafted to meet our National Defense personnel needs. 54 00:03:26,010 --> 00:03:31,890 Are they needs or wants? Vietnam, Korea, When you say 55 00:03:31,890 --> 00:03:35,290 needs, does that mean the country's going to die? 56 00:03:35,290 --> 00:03:37,890 Cease to exist? It these seem like a lot of 57 00:03:37,890 --> 00:03:43,100 wants rather than needs. Even in 1775, there are plenty 58 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:50,180 of nations like Australia or South Africa or Canada who were 59 00:03:50,180 --> 00:03:54,940 part of the British Empire, and without the significant military 60 00:03:54,940 --> 00:03:57,900 conflict we're able to secure their independence. 61 00:03:57,900 --> 00:03:59,980 These feel like wants, not needs. 62 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:05,180 Meet our National Defense personnel needs, especially in a 63 00:04:05,220 --> 00:04:09,840 time of crisis. Today the military needs only 64 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:15,120 about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 65 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,519 million to meet its recruitment needs. 66 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,640 Need this. We will die without it. 67 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,800 Not a want. It's required. 68 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,960 Just because something is a need doesn't mean you get to coerce 69 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,040 people into it. Farming is an absolute need. 70 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,520 Is that Okay? If Tyson Chicken and all the 71 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,570 farming companies force people to perform labor against their 72 00:04:36,570 --> 00:04:40,370 will, We need cars, we need houses. 73 00:04:40,370 --> 00:04:43,010 Does that mean housing and construction companies have the 74 00:04:43,010 --> 00:04:46,410 right to coerce people to perform labor to provide these 75 00:04:46,410 --> 00:04:49,090 needs? So even if you agree that it is 76 00:04:49,090 --> 00:04:53,010 a need, which it isn't, doesn't justify you coercing people to 77 00:04:53,010 --> 00:04:57,410 do such a thing. But after two decades of war, 78 00:04:57,530 --> 00:05:00,930 both of which ended on success unsuccessfully. 79 00:05:02,050 --> 00:05:06,410 So this is an organization that just is about needs, and the 80 00:05:06,410 --> 00:05:11,450 needs were unsuccessfully met. And the solution to this is not 81 00:05:11,450 --> 00:05:15,010 to make sure people can opt out of funding the military or opt 82 00:05:15,010 --> 00:05:18,210 out of joining it. They need to require people to 83 00:05:18,250 --> 00:05:21,090 engage in this unsuccessful adventure. 84 00:05:22,170 --> 00:05:25,850 After two decades of war, both of which ended unsuccessfully, 85 00:05:26,090 --> 00:05:31,290 and low unemployment, many experts believe that the all 86 00:05:31,290 --> 00:05:34,730 volunteer Force has reached a breaking .0 okay. 87 00:05:34,890 --> 00:05:38,730 I'm convinced the experts believe the experts have spoken. 88 00:05:38,770 --> 00:05:43,690 The science says that we can't just allow people to interact 89 00:05:43,690 --> 00:05:49,490 voluntarily, and American confidence in its military is at 90 00:05:49,490 --> 00:05:53,130 a low. So when the confidence in your 91 00:05:53,130 --> 00:05:56,170 organization is bad, it's time to start forcing people to 92 00:05:56,170 --> 00:05:58,930 associate more with it. Not for you to change. 93 00:05:59,090 --> 00:06:01,370 No, you're just meeting the needs of the nation. 94 00:06:01,690 --> 00:06:04,610 No other people need to be forced to interact with you. 95 00:06:04,890 --> 00:06:07,450 See, when you do a good job, then it's okay to force people 96 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:09,530 to interact with you because you're doing a good thing. 97 00:06:09,970 --> 00:06:13,210 And when you're doing a bad job with your your last two wars 98 00:06:13,210 --> 00:06:17,050 have ended unsuccessfully well, then you need to force people to 99 00:06:17,170 --> 00:06:19,210 associate with you. Heads, I win. 100 00:06:19,210 --> 00:06:23,940 Tails you lose. The fastest and most effective 101 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:29,180 way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we 102 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:31,300 recruit. It's just a change, you know, 103 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:34,540 sort of like Barack Obama ran on hope and change. 104 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:36,180 We just need to change something. 105 00:06:36,180 --> 00:06:38,940 There's no principles that we should abide by. 106 00:06:39,140 --> 00:06:43,180 We just need change. It's going to be fast and most 107 00:06:43,580 --> 00:06:49,050 effective in invoking economic efficiency when forcing people 108 00:06:49,050 --> 00:06:50,730 to perform labor against their will. 109 00:06:51,690 --> 00:06:56,290 Instead of an either instead of an either, an all voluntary 110 00:06:56,290 --> 00:07:02,650 force or fully conscripted force model, I propose a both and 111 00:07:02,690 --> 00:07:08,130 solution. OK, this is the fallacy of 112 00:07:08,250 --> 00:07:11,610 equilibrium. We don't want to be extremists. 113 00:07:11,610 --> 00:07:14,650 We want a little bit of this and a little bit of that. 114 00:07:14,890 --> 00:07:17,550 We want to meet right in the middle. 115 00:07:17,550 --> 00:07:22,630 This is like saying, well, I don't want to never steal. 116 00:07:22,710 --> 00:07:25,550 I don't want to always steal. So I guess I should steal 117 00:07:25,790 --> 00:07:30,270 sometimes. And I guess if the a happy 118 00:07:30,270 --> 00:07:32,070 medium is something that's justified. 119 00:07:32,350 --> 00:07:36,510 I don't want to always, you know, dodge the draft. 120 00:07:36,510 --> 00:07:38,830 I don't want to never dodge the draft. 121 00:07:39,030 --> 00:07:41,590 So maybe half the people should dodge the draft. 122 00:07:41,590 --> 00:07:48,420 Half the time we should have our military recruiters sign up new 123 00:07:48,420 --> 00:07:54,100 troops for 11 months out of the year and then have the Selective 124 00:07:54,100 --> 00:08:00,220 Service draft the delta between the military's needs and the 125 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:06,700 total number recruited. Okay, this model would 126 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:09,780 alleviate, oh, he's just trying to alleviate us. 127 00:08:09,780 --> 00:08:12,020 It's going to be fast. It's going to be efficient. 128 00:08:12,020 --> 00:08:15,390 If it's meeting needs and it's alleviating. 129 00:08:15,390 --> 00:08:18,630 He's really doing you a favor. I I need to send this man to 130 00:08:18,630 --> 00:08:23,790 thank you note, alleviate the incredible pressure on our 131 00:08:23,830 --> 00:08:26,150 recruiters. So it's not that they need to 132 00:08:26,150 --> 00:08:30,070 provide a better service. They don't need to improve their 133 00:08:30,070 --> 00:08:32,669 organization at all. They're actually under a lot of 134 00:08:32,669 --> 00:08:36,950 pressure. Lower the cost of finding new 135 00:08:36,950 --> 00:08:39,789 troops. Oh yes, but military only gets 136 00:08:39,789 --> 00:08:43,010 like, you know, a trillion dollars a year in in 137 00:08:43,010 --> 00:08:45,330 expenditures. They're just really worried 138 00:08:45,330 --> 00:08:51,610 about the cost and significantly reduce the much decried civilian 139 00:08:51,610 --> 00:08:56,610 military gap. The fact that a gap exists is 140 00:08:56,610 --> 00:08:59,690 nothing terrible. There's a huge gap between 141 00:08:59,730 --> 00:09:04,170 pilots and customers of airlines. 142 00:09:04,170 --> 00:09:07,890 Some pilots will fly thousands and thousands of times and other 143 00:09:07,890 --> 00:09:10,410 people will never fly a plane in their entire life. 144 00:09:10,850 --> 00:09:13,470 So what? Nothing terrible about that. 145 00:09:15,670 --> 00:09:20,350 The much decried civilian military gap by subjugating all 146 00:09:20,510 --> 00:09:25,870 of America's, Subjugating all of America's youth, that that's a 147 00:09:25,870 --> 00:09:30,510 good way to put it, rich and poor, to the possibility of 148 00:09:30,510 --> 00:09:34,270 military service via the draft? Okay. 149 00:09:34,630 --> 00:09:40,690 So This is why progressives playing the class warfare game 150 00:09:40,770 --> 00:09:44,210 is so evil, because then someone can come in and say you know 151 00:09:44,210 --> 00:09:46,970 what, you're right, the problem is the rich. 152 00:09:47,250 --> 00:09:50,930 Therefore we got to make them pay as well and have something 153 00:09:50,930 --> 00:09:52,850 like this. So when progressives never talk 154 00:09:52,850 --> 00:09:55,330 about anything like the non aggression principle, this is 155 00:09:55,330 --> 00:09:58,490 totally in line with with what they advocate. 156 00:09:58,490 --> 00:10:01,790 Cuz you know it's not it's not wrong that the military 157 00:10:01,790 --> 00:10:04,030 initiates violence against peaceful people in Yemen, 158 00:10:04,030 --> 00:10:06,630 Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. 159 00:10:06,950 --> 00:10:12,190 The problem is the rich are benefiting so this opens you up 160 00:10:12,190 --> 00:10:17,350 to class warfare nonsense. This increased public interest 161 00:10:17,790 --> 00:10:22,310 might also have the added effect of increasing public pressure to 162 00:10:22,310 --> 00:10:28,860 prevent open-ended wars. So they don't prevent openended 163 00:10:28,860 --> 00:10:31,300 wars when people voluntarily associate with them. 164 00:10:31,660 --> 00:10:35,100 But when you have to associate with them, well, then they're 165 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:37,940 going to do a good job. You know, we were going to do a 166 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:42,940 bad job, but I guess we could do a good job if we force people to 167 00:10:42,940 --> 00:10:47,900 associate with US-led by unaccountable senior leaders 168 00:10:48,660 --> 00:10:53,340 like we experience in our national debacles in Iraq and 169 00:10:53,660 --> 00:10:56,660 Afghanistan. It's important to know that 170 00:10:56,980 --> 00:11:01,900 while Iraq is usually seen as the throwaway, OK, yes, Iraq was 171 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:04,660 a blunder. The war in Afghanistan was also 172 00:11:04,660 --> 00:11:10,020 completely unjustified in October 14th of 2001. 173 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:13,860 Here is the guardian Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand 174 00:11:13,860 --> 00:11:18,420 Bin Laden over President George Bush rejected as non negotiable 175 00:11:18,620 --> 00:11:21,740 in offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin 176 00:11:21,740 --> 00:11:25,020 Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan. 177 00:11:25,460 --> 00:11:28,540 Returning to the White House after a weekend at Camp David, 178 00:11:28,780 --> 00:11:31,900 the president said the bombing would not stop unless the ruling 179 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:37,340 Taliban turn bin Laden over, turn his cohorts over, turn any 180 00:11:37,340 --> 00:11:39,780 hostages they hold over, he added. 181 00:11:40,180 --> 00:11:42,860 There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. 182 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:46,220 We know he's guilty up. The experts have spoken. 183 00:11:46,660 --> 00:11:50,660 They know he's guilty. In Jalalabad, Deputy Prime 184 00:11:50,660 --> 00:11:54,860 Minister Aji Abdul Kabir, the third most powerful figure in 185 00:11:54,860 --> 00:11:58,900 the ruling Taliban regime, told reporters that the Taliban would 186 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:02,740 require evidence that bin Laden was behind the September 11th 187 00:12:02,740 --> 00:12:06,340 terrorist attack in the US, but added we would be ready to hand 188 00:12:06,340 --> 00:12:11,460 him over to a third country. So they could have avoided that. 189 00:12:11,620 --> 00:12:14,860 That was one of the needless wars that the author mentions, 190 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:19,060 and they didn't do it when people were voluntarily joining 191 00:12:19,060 --> 00:12:22,340 the military. But if they coerce you and you 192 00:12:22,340 --> 00:12:25,650 don't have the right to opt out, then they'll start making really 193 00:12:25,650 --> 00:12:27,690 good decisions. It's important to know 194 00:12:27,770 --> 00:12:30,450 Afghanistan was completely unnecessary as well. 195 00:12:30,450 --> 00:12:34,930 So when it comes to meeting our military needs, these are not 196 00:12:34,930 --> 00:12:37,090 needs. These are wants for military 197 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:40,450 industrial interests. And it's not like it's only you 198 00:12:40,450 --> 00:12:43,970 know them who benefit. Tons of soldiers get the amazing 199 00:12:44,210 --> 00:12:48,250 retirement packages and everything for the only a few 200 00:12:48,250 --> 00:12:52,150 years of work. Article Continues While the 201 00:12:52,150 --> 00:12:56,470 causes of our current recruiting crisis are many, the fastest and 202 00:12:56,470 --> 00:13:01,030 best solution, fast, efficient he's alleviating, it's the best 203 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:07,110 solution lies within our already existing Selective Service 204 00:13:07,150 --> 00:13:10,670 System. This would obviously represent a 205 00:13:10,670 --> 00:13:14,990 seismic change given the more recent history of military 206 00:13:14,990 --> 00:13:18,870 drafts. In 1973, the draft was abolished 207 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:24,140 with the establishment of an all volunteer force, driven largely 208 00:13:24,220 --> 00:13:27,620 by the American public's weariness with our debacle in 209 00:13:27,620 --> 00:13:32,020 Vietnam, so two unsuccessful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 210 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:36,700 They concede that Vietnam was a debacle, not inherently immoral 211 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:40,260 because they murdered a lot of civilians in Vietnam and Laos 212 00:13:40,260 --> 00:13:46,240 and Cambodia and, you know, 58,000 American troops died in a 213 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,360 war that was based on a Gulf of Tonkin fake incident. 214 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,880 No, no. This was just a debacle. 215 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,200 See, when other countries murder civilians, it's inherently evil 216 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,240 and we got to go to war. When the Pentagon and the US 217 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,480 regime murder innocent people, that was a debacle. 218 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:07,000 That that was an accident. Basically, more or less systemic 219 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,200 inequities in the draft Okay. And this is where we get the 220 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,310 inequality myth coming back. Yeah, there are a lot of 221 00:14:15,310 --> 00:14:18,830 inequalities in the world. As if the existence of 222 00:14:18,830 --> 00:14:23,990 inequalities justifies performing forced labor against 223 00:14:23,990 --> 00:14:28,270 your will. Systemic inequities in the draft 224 00:14:28,270 --> 00:14:33,310 example, wealthier Americans being able to defer service, and 225 00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:36,590 the fact that the size of our population has become so large 226 00:14:36,870 --> 00:14:40,350 in relation to the needs of the military. 227 00:14:40,750 --> 00:14:44,650 Universal drafting became obsolete. 228 00:14:45,410 --> 00:14:49,130 While the ALL Volunteer force had the effect of lowering 229 00:14:49,250 --> 00:14:53,690 discipline problems and professionalizing the force, it 230 00:14:53,690 --> 00:15:00,130 also created a vast gap between American citizens and those who 231 00:15:00,130 --> 00:15:04,650 serve. This is a disgusting division 232 00:15:04,930 --> 00:15:08,290 where, just like under COVID, they said some people are 233 00:15:08,290 --> 00:15:11,520 essential workers. And then there's other people. 234 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,240 That's extremely divisive for someone who wants to close the 235 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,800 gap between members of our Democratic Republic. 236 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,440 He's actively saying there are people who serve and then 237 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,920 there's American citizens. The people who work at 238 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:33,610 restaurants do a great deal of serving and they give us food 239 00:15:33,610 --> 00:15:38,370 which is required to live. Car mechanics give me car 240 00:15:39,290 --> 00:15:42,770 assistance, which allow me to get to work and have a life. 241 00:15:42,770 --> 00:15:45,290 Those are great services as well. 242 00:15:45,290 --> 00:15:49,250 Let's not pretend that the military is completely unique in 243 00:15:49,250 --> 00:15:55,410 that aspect, effectively creating a military warrior cast 244 00:15:55,850 --> 00:16:00,220 that now appears more like a multigenerational family 245 00:16:00,220 --> 00:16:04,500 business than an organization that represents the true makeup 246 00:16:04,580 --> 00:16:08,580 of our Democratic Republic. If you want to represent the 247 00:16:08,580 --> 00:16:12,180 Democratic Republic, you want to make sure that people have the 248 00:16:12,420 --> 00:16:15,780 freedom to disassociate with your organization. 249 00:16:16,060 --> 00:16:18,700 Because if you're forcing someone to associate with you, 250 00:16:18,860 --> 00:16:20,420 you don't know. Maybe they like you. 251 00:16:20,620 --> 00:16:22,420 Maybe they love you, maybe they hate you. 252 00:16:22,950 --> 00:16:25,750 But if they don't have the recognized right to opt out of 253 00:16:25,750 --> 00:16:29,110 funding it or participating with it, then it actually doesn't 254 00:16:30,230 --> 00:16:32,950 reflect what people actually want. 255 00:16:33,950 --> 00:16:37,830 It's like saying I want to see if people really like this ice 256 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:40,910 cream shop I'm opening up. Therefore I'm going to require 257 00:16:40,910 --> 00:16:44,630 people to be my customer and require them to eat the ice 258 00:16:44,630 --> 00:16:46,430 cream. Well, that's not how you see if 259 00:16:46,430 --> 00:16:49,870 you represent them, you offer them something voluntarily. 260 00:16:50,150 --> 00:16:53,880 And if they like, if they say they like it, if they're 261 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,360 returned customers, then that's a good indicator that you're 262 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,240 actually representing them. The establishment of the All 263 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,680 Volunteer Force also drove the military to expend an incredible 264 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:09,240 amount of resources in terms of manpower and dollars to build a 265 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,720 recruiting machine to attract America's youth to service. 266 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,560 Yes, So what? It's like, you know what? 267 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:22,839 If I can't get women to voluntarily date me, I'm going 268 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:25,960 to have to start coercing them because, I mean, I spend so much 269 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,840 time trying to get their attention and my business, I 270 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,400 spend so much time on marketing that it's really a waste. 271 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,040 I should just be able to force people to give me money and 272 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,440 force people to be my customers because, you know, I expend an 273 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,480 incredible amount of resources in terms of manpower and 274 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,090 dollars. Considering it costs about 275 00:17:48,090 --> 00:17:52,970 $15,000 to recruit each new member, the overall cost each 276 00:17:52,970 --> 00:17:57,690 year exceeds 2 billion. So they don't need to provide a 277 00:17:57,930 --> 00:18:00,770 better service. They don't need to be more 278 00:18:00,770 --> 00:18:04,690 honest, they don't need to declassify documents, They don't 279 00:18:04,690 --> 00:18:06,930 have to change anything on their side of the equation. 280 00:18:07,450 --> 00:18:10,450 What they have to do is start forcing us to associate with 281 00:18:10,450 --> 00:18:16,090 them, and recruitment has risen and fallen with the national 282 00:18:16,250 --> 00:18:19,330 unemployment rate. The causes of this crisis are 283 00:18:19,330 --> 00:18:23,570 many, and both politicians and our national leadership are 284 00:18:23,570 --> 00:18:27,810 largely to blame. Credit to this sentence right 285 00:18:27,810 --> 00:18:31,850 there, not bad. For nearly a decade, feckless 286 00:18:31,850 --> 00:18:35,530 politicians using the military as a club to batter their 287 00:18:35,530 --> 00:18:39,330 opponents have exacerbated increasing negative public 288 00:18:39,330 --> 00:18:43,070 opinion, despite the fact that our military has crushed 289 00:18:43,150 --> 00:18:46,390 international terrorism and prevented another large scale 290 00:18:46,390 --> 00:18:50,110 attack on our homeland for 22 years. 291 00:18:50,110 --> 00:18:55,470 Crushed international terrorism. So according to CIA analysts, 292 00:18:56,830 --> 00:19:02,830 September 11th or around September of 2001 there were 293 00:19:02,830 --> 00:19:08,030 about 400 members of Al Qaeda, 400 Mujahideen fighters who 294 00:19:08,030 --> 00:19:14,670 answered to Osama bin Laden. There were 10s of thousands of 295 00:19:14,670 --> 00:19:19,430 fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, 296 00:19:20,030 --> 00:19:23,070 going as far as the Philippines. In some cases. 297 00:19:24,590 --> 00:19:27,590 They didn't crush it. They actually exacerbated it. 298 00:19:27,590 --> 00:19:33,710 Here is an example of of why it was exacerbated. 299 00:19:34,790 --> 00:19:39,770 Osama bin Laden wrote a message to the American people, American 300 00:19:39,770 --> 00:19:41,610 people. My speech to you is about the 301 00:19:41,610 --> 00:19:45,250 best way of avoiding a repeat performance of Manhattan, as 302 00:19:45,250 --> 00:19:48,210 well as the causes and consequences of the war. 303 00:19:48,490 --> 00:19:51,570 By way of introduction, let me say that security is an 304 00:19:51,570 --> 00:19:55,130 indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not 305 00:19:55,130 --> 00:19:58,570 forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claims that we hate 306 00:19:58,570 --> 00:20:02,050 freedom, if that were true. Then let him explain to us why 307 00:20:02,050 --> 00:20:06,090 we do not attack Sweden. For example, freedom haters do 308 00:20:06,090 --> 00:20:10,050 not possess defiant spirits like those of the 19. 309 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:14,370 May God have mercy on them. No, we fight because we are free 310 00:20:14,370 --> 00:20:17,330 men who do not slumber under oppression. 311 00:20:17,410 --> 00:20:21,130 We want to restore freedom to our nation, and just as you lay 312 00:20:21,130 --> 00:20:25,210 waste to our nation, we shall lay waste to yours. 313 00:20:25,650 --> 00:20:29,170 Only a witless wrongdoer plays with the security of others and 314 00:20:29,170 --> 00:20:32,790 then fools himself into thinking he will be secure, whereas 315 00:20:32,790 --> 00:20:36,430 rational people, when disaster strikes, make it a priority to 316 00:20:36,430 --> 00:20:40,510 look for its causes. God knows we would never have 317 00:20:40,510 --> 00:20:44,190 thought of striking the towers had we not seen such tyranny and 318 00:20:44,190 --> 00:20:47,470 oppression from the American Israeli alliance against our 319 00:20:47,470 --> 00:20:54,910 people in Palestine and Lebanon. So this is bin Laden going on 320 00:20:54,950 --> 00:20:59,260 explaining that state terrorism is called freedom and democracy, 321 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:02,900 while resistance is terrorism and intolerance. 322 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:06,260 This means that millions of people must suffer oppression 323 00:21:06,260 --> 00:21:09,700 and embargo until death results, as inflicted by Bush senior in 324 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:12,500 Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children ever. 325 00:21:12,820 --> 00:21:18,460 So it was actually the military interventions of Iraq, support 326 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:23,580 for Israel and occupation of the land of Mecca and Medina to bomb 327 00:21:23,580 --> 00:21:27,460 places like Iraq and enforce the starvation blockade That is 328 00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:32,380 actually what caused the terrorism that this author is 329 00:21:32,380 --> 00:21:34,860 claiming that the state protects us against. 330 00:21:35,380 --> 00:21:39,500 Also large scale attack. Barack Obama did call the Pulse 331 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:44,300 nightclub massacre, the single largest shooting in American 332 00:21:44,300 --> 00:21:47,740 history, even though the shooting at Wounded Knee killed 333 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:50,980 far more people. But even the Pulse nightclub 334 00:21:50,980 --> 00:21:57,230 murderer Omar Mateen, who got on the phone with the FBI and said 335 00:21:57,270 --> 00:22:00,870 tell America to stop bombing Iraq and Syria, they're killing 336 00:22:00,870 --> 00:22:03,150 too many women and children. Tell the US to stop 337 00:22:03,150 --> 00:22:05,950 collaborating with Russia. The drone strike, the drone 338 00:22:05,950 --> 00:22:08,150 strikes need to stop. They're killing too many women 339 00:22:08,150 --> 00:22:11,630 and children. That was clearly an example of 340 00:22:11,630 --> 00:22:15,750 blowback, as was 911 and the existence of Al Qaeda. 341 00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:20,550 So yeah, the entire War on Terror was completely avoidable 342 00:22:20,710 --> 00:22:23,350 and is the fault of the US government. 343 00:22:24,790 --> 00:22:27,990 Article continues despite this success. 344 00:22:28,310 --> 00:22:31,790 Again, not a success. There were far more Mujahideen 345 00:22:31,790 --> 00:22:34,550 fighters as a causal result of the War on Terror than there 346 00:22:34,550 --> 00:22:39,630 were before in 2023. Every service except the Marine 347 00:22:39,630 --> 00:22:43,190 Corps is poised to miss its recruitment goals. 348 00:22:43,670 --> 00:22:47,110 We're not getting what we want. We don't have to change. 349 00:22:47,310 --> 00:22:50,510 You people have to be forced to associate with us. 350 00:22:51,430 --> 00:22:56,840 In 2022, the army alone fell short by 15,000 recruits. 351 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,000 The needs of the nation must be met. 352 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,280 Great non sequitur. All right The the food needs of 353 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,400 the nations must be met. Therefore, farming companies 354 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,160 have the right to enslave people to work for them. 355 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,760 Housing needs need to be met. Therefore, construction 356 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,080 companies have the right to force people to perform 357 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:23,190 construction against their will. Complete non sequitur and our 358 00:23:23,190 --> 00:23:27,670 national leadership would be wise to reinforce the idea that 359 00:23:27,670 --> 00:23:31,990 military service is an important responsibility of citizenship. 360 00:23:32,270 --> 00:23:36,350 Yeah, parenting is a important responsibility. 361 00:23:36,350 --> 00:23:40,110 Having a job, being kind to others is a vitally important 362 00:23:40,110 --> 00:23:44,750 responsibility of citizenship. Does not mean you get to coerce 363 00:23:44,750 --> 00:23:49,110 people and put them in a cage if they resist, threatening to kill 364 00:23:49,110 --> 00:23:52,760 them if they resist. Being put in the cage for not 365 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,720 wanting to fight in wars based on lies, which you've conceded 366 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:02,080 are unnecessary debacles. While conscription has always 367 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:06,920 been a controversial issue, yes, yeah, slavery is controversial. 368 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,560 Forced labor, I would say, is a little controversial throughout 369 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,280 our history. A hybrid model of he's just 370 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,720 finding a happy equilibrium. He's not really taking a side. 371 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:23,090 He's saying we need balance. We can't have no murder. 372 00:24:23,330 --> 00:24:27,050 Also, we can't murder everyone. Therefore, we should murder some 373 00:24:27,050 --> 00:24:30,370 people. Would alleviate our current 374 00:24:30,370 --> 00:24:35,010 military manpower crisis, increase the connectivity 375 00:24:35,010 --> 00:24:38,250 between the American public and its military, and more 376 00:24:38,250 --> 00:24:42,330 responsibly use taxpayer dollars? 377 00:24:42,330 --> 00:24:46,730 No, that's not responsive. That's irresponsible to coerce 378 00:24:46,730 --> 00:24:48,370 people to do things against their will. 379 00:24:49,470 --> 00:24:55,070 Goals in our military formations are in fact gaps in our national 380 00:24:55,070 --> 00:24:58,830 security, so they really need to keep the nation safe and keep it 381 00:24:58,830 --> 00:25:00,750 free. And the way to do that is to 382 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:04,590 engage in the greatest violation of freedom known to man, which 383 00:25:04,590 --> 00:25:09,110 is kidnapping and enslavement and forced labor under the most 384 00:25:09,110 --> 00:25:13,710 dire circumstances for theft, funded wars based on lies. 385 00:25:14,470 --> 00:25:16,630 Thank you for watching. Keith and I don't tread on 386 00:25:16,630 --> 00:25:18,880 anyone. 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