Charlie Rangel brings up a Draft bill every year

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22. I don't know how to "solve these problems",

but the first step might be for the people of the USA to be a little more reflective and honest about their role.

In the USA's illegal and immoral war of choice against Iraq, it wasn't "thousands killed", it was over 100 thousand, and even more maimed and the country was destroyed. Iraq's schools, hospitals, electrical grid, roads and bridges destroyed. Their cities destroyed. In the US's illegal and immoral "regime change" operation against Syria, begun under Obama/HRC but following the identical PNAC program as underlay the US's destruction of Iraq, Syria is being destroyed and ISIS is being armed, funded and trained either directly or through US proxies. "Moderate rebels" my ass!

The US destroyed Libya. It is conducting terror operations using drones piloted half a world away to fire hellfire missiles at "signature targets" (always called "terrorists" after the fact) in half a dozen countries in the mid-east that it isn't at war with.

You KNOW this - yet point your finger at "Islamic terrorists" as being the problem.

You seem to think you, personally, are "suffering" from some blowback. You say:
"This ISIS and AlQuida business is the biggest threat to the world that I've ever seen", and appear totally oblivious to the extent of the US criminal war enterprise in the mid-east and to the fact that the US is the *cause* of that carnage. Because that carnage doesn't impact you, and you don't identify with the arab people. Instead, you blame the victims, the people of the countries that the US destroyed and is destroying, and you want a faster and greater US military buildup over there to alleviate your fright and apprehension.

You lightly pass it off: "We put a lot of money into defending some allies" as if these illegal and immoral US wars are somehow in self-defence, and as if the US under both Republican and Democratic administrations isn't the leader and motivator for all of those wars, and as if the Republican and Democratic administrations are somehow different, as if the Democratic administration is somehow exonerated for what it is doing.

IMO your way of thinking is a product of total immersion in MSM war propaganda in service of big oil and the MIC, in service of wall street and the most cynical of politics.