Communism; Beyond the Ultra-Left

This article..."Meals Toilets and Marx for UC Davis Protesters"...from Trevor Loudon is one of major importance in understanding what we are facing in the upcoming battle with the Uber-Left. This Neo Communist is a new invigorated breed of animal. The crowning of the Imperious Obama has had the effect of empowering this Neo-Com machine (Just as I said it would three years ago). I am including a syllabus of reading material for the Neo-Com student initiate. I will say that I coined this phrase...some other will get credit for it, but I care not. This is going to be a force to be reckoned with for years / decades to come. The academia are marshaling all their forces for battle as we speak. Elections mean very little to these groups. Do not underestimate their influence over the young and the "disenfranchised" American! They see their opportunities arise in a vacuum of leadership and in the ensuing chaos that inevitably results.

A campus conservative at UC Davis was so disgusted by slanted coverage of the Occupy movement that he reached out to Fox News and provided the channel a video showing police officers being surrounded by protesters after dismantling an illegal tent site. Marcus Shibler, chairman of Davis College Republicans, says the officers were met with chants of “F— the police.”

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com


Marcus Shibler

Meanwhile, one of the UC Davis faculty members involved in leading the protests is scheduled to teach a course on Marxism and is now calling for the campus police to be completely evicted from the university.
A syllabus for Professor Nathan Brown’s course begins with a Karl Marx quote about communism being “the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.” The on-line course description is decorated with a hammer and sickle, the symbol of communism.

The Real Movement of History —

Left Communism and the Communization Current

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

- Karl Marx, The German Ideology

In 2009, an international conference at Birkbeck College in London brought together major figures in political philosophy (Badiou, Zizek, Negri, Ranci�re, Hallward, Eagleton, Vattimo) to discuss �The Idea of Communism.� In his foreword to the conference program, Alain Badiou stated that �without the horizon of communism, without this idea, there is nothing in history and political becoming of any interest to the philosopher.� Yet Marx is explicit, in The German Ideology and elsewhere, that communism is not an �idea� but rather a real movement taking place in and as history, not a �horizon� but an immanent process of abolition and elaboration that is happening even now.

This course will be devoted not to �the idea of communism� but rather to understanding communism as �the real movement of history.� To that end we will study left communist tendencies as they have developed in Germany, Italy, France, England, Greece, and the US, with a particular focus on the so-called �communization current� elaborated primarily in France over the past forty years. We will read texts by such figures and groups as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Amadeo Bordiga, Anton Pannekoek, Paul Mattick, Guy Debord, Gilles Dauv�, Theorie Communiste, Tiqqun and the Invisible Committee (France), Aufheben (UK), TPTG and Blaumachen (Greece), Riff-Raff (Sweden) and Endnotes (UK & US). These texts will orient us toward another tradition of communist theory, outside of and overlooked by the development of mainstream political philosophy.

READING SCHEDULE

I. THE COMMUNIZATION CURRENT (BEYOND THE ULTRA-LEFT)

Week 1 — Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party

— Gilles Dauv�, The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement

— Th�orie Communiste, Who We Are; The Present Moment

Week 2 — Th�orie Communiste & Gilles Dauv�, Endnotes I: Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the 20th Century

— Aufheben / Th�orie Communiste, Decadence (Aufheben) & Communist Theory -- Beyond the Ultra-Left (Th�orie Communiste)

— Th�orie Communiste, Th�orie de l'�cart

Week 3 — Mariarosa Dalla Costa & Selma James, The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community

— Selma James, Women, the Unions, and Work...Or What Is Not to Be Done

­— Sylvia Federici, Wages Against Housework

— Th�orie Communiste, Gender - Class - Dynamic; Comrades, But Women

— Claire Fontaine, Human Strike in the Field of Libidinal Economy

II. LEFT COMMUNIST HISTORIES

Week 4 — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

Vladimir Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Week 5 — Amadeo Bordiga, Party and Class; Party and Class Action

— Anton Pannekoek, Party and Working Class; World Revolution and Communist Tactics

— Phillipe Bourinnet, The Bordigist Current, 1919-1999 (selections); The Dutch and German Communist Left, 1900-1968 (selections)

Week 6 — Paul Mattick, Spontaneity and Organization; The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle

— Jacques Camatte, Capital and Community; Origin and Function of the Party Form

Week 7 — Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

III. CONTEMPORARY TRAJECTORIES

Week 8 — TPTG/Blaumachen,

— Th�orie Communiste, The Glass Floor; TPTG/Blaumachen, The Ivory Tower of Theory (Reply to TC);

— Riff-Raff, Issue 9 (texts in English)

Week 9 — Tiqqun, Call; Introduction to Civil War; Theory of Bloom

Week 10 — Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection

And now...The Marxist "Blessing of the Taxes"

Blessing of the Government Taxes

Let me, Dear God, shift the paradigm on this Thanksgiving and blissfully give thanks for the gift of government, and thank the government for the gift of taxes. Bless my taxes, O God! Give me peace of mind as I rejoice in filling out forms and returning money to its rightful owner, the government. Keep me joyous, I pray, as I write out those checks. Yea, Lord, we know that there is little reason to be joyous with this Administration's imperialism and impending rape of the Iranian peaceful energy program, but the thought of a new tax year still brings to us a swelling tear of joy. And whisper to me, Lord, all the good reasons that I send my money to my government every year.

Raise my awareness to the fact that I could not write this prayer, and would be a barely-functioning illiterate living in the gutter, if I had not received a free tax-subsidized education; my parents could not have afforded both my tuition and their own tax payments, so my tuition was supplied, at no expense to anyone, by the government. Remind me of how my mind has been so wondrously calibrated by our free public schools!

Gently show me that the Internet, through which I send this prayer to others, was created by committees of civil servants. Help me to recall that my freedom to pray as I wish was purchased with tax dollars that paid for dairy price supports. Quietly kiss me as you raise my awareness that the only deserving people, the most noble among us, are those who subsist on government programs -- paid for with our taxes. My Lord my God, fondle me as you energize me with the hopefulness of higher taxes that can pay for an even more effective Internal Revenue service, which in turn can collect even more taxes for an even more effective Internal Revenue Service, which will culminate in an ecstatic spiral of an all-encompassing tax-collecting mechanism that will be accountable to no one except to the spirit of economic justice.

Reveal to me, Lord, in my mind's eye, the public health workers, the regulators of the environment and of commerce, the employees of the Department of Energy, and the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education, and the Administration for Children and Families, and the Minerals Management Service, and the Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and the Minority Business Development Agency , and the Japan-United States Friendship Commission , and the Government National Mortgage Association, and the Housing and Urban Development Department, and the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, and the Institute of Peace, and the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Small Business Administration, and the Superfund Basic Research Program , and the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission , and the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee , and the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, and the Stennis Center for Public Service, and the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation , and the Peace Corps, and the Office of Public and Indian Housing, and the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, and the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, and the National Interagency Fire Center, and the Northwest Power Planning Council, and the Multifamily Housing Office , and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, and especially the Internal Revenue Service, and all the other things that my taxes and your taxes make possible.

And please, Lord, remind my brothers and sisters that they should liquidate their savings accounts and mutual funds, bonds and CDs, so that they too can be forced to turn it over to the greatest bargain of all that is Social Security. Educate me, Dear One, of how difficult life was for the sick and elderly before they paid throughout their entire careers, with threat of imprisonment, 14% of their wages for the iron-clad guarantees of Social Security. Please, Lord, make everyone realize that there is no investment more secure, and none that gives such a generous return, as Social Security.

Tax the rich. Sicken the healthy. Scar the beautiful. Destroy the "successful". Drown the bankers. Blind the stock traders. Cripple the athletes and sever the hands of the musicians.

Take me out of my selfishness and give me a spirit of gratitude as I write those tax checks! Remind me of my own virtue as I inform the IRS of cheaters. Inspire me to see that my sacred duty is to serve those who are unable to provide "value" to others, or are unwilling to provide anything for themselves. And that my highest calling is to ensure that others return whatever they have to the Government that You have created.

O Dear One, there are so many ways I wish my taxes could be spent! I'm willing, O Lord, to pay even more in taxes if it would work for the common good: We need a strong government to take back from the rich few and generously give to the many! Lord my God, please put the brakes on commerce, remove all profits from the pigs who "produced" it, and turn it all over to those who deserve it. So, more than ever, dear God, give me the strength and the vision to rise up and press my government to unapologetically take back what is ours. My sacred duty as a spokesperson for the working class can only be fulfilled if we organize, advocate, protest, resist, agitate, and speak truth to power by writing tax checks. I ask for your guidance, God, as I join with others to change the priorities and values of our government, so that they reflect more of our collective will, and my struggle, as expressed through your will.

Lord, you have created all men and wymyn as equals. Any disparity from your plan is an affront to decency. And so I pray, my Dear Lord, that you fulfill your vision for true equality, and remove all excess. In service to you, my Lord, we will not rest until everyone is truly equal. Tax the rich. Sicken the healthy. Scar the beautiful. Destroy the "successful". Drown the bankers. Blind the stock traders. Cripple the athletes and sever the hands of the musicians. Plant carnivorous bacteria in the brains of those who score high on racist "IQ" tests. Deliver wasting diseases to the strong. Starve and stone the executives and managers. Show no mercy to the blood-sucking merchants as they suffer merciless deaths in the searing flames of gargantuan infernos. Smash capitalism and deliver us, Dear One, to our deserved socialist paradise.

May your blessing rest on my Form 1040, dear Lord, and may my taxes well serve you and my fellow citizens! Amen.

From The People's Cube

Here is one more Leftist prayer...sic

You Guys Need To STOP THIS!...But We Are Transparent

The Daily Caller...Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder today demanded The Daily Caller stop publishing articles about the growing calls in Congress for his resignation because of the failed Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program.

As Holder’s aide was escorting the attorney general offstage following his remarks Tuesday afternoon at the White House, a Daily Caller reporter introduced himself and shook Holder’s hand. The reporter asked him for a response to the growing chorus of federal legislators demanding his resignation.

Holder also blames Americans for gun-running.


Holder stepped towards the exit, then turned around, stepped back toward the reporter, and sternly said, “You guys need to — you need to stop this. It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it.”

Holder then walked offstage without answering TheDC’s request for comment about calls for his resignation...via...iowntheworld

Read more:

One more juicy item by Michelle Malkin

Just like clockwork, the Obama administration never misses an opportunity to unload thousands of records it hopes no one will ever bother sifting through during the holidays.

On Black Friday, the White House released more visitor log info — trumpeting disclosures it has fought tooth and nail.

I’ve started looking through the data. And you can, too, right here (suggestion: click on the release date and arrange with newest entries first – they’re dated 11/22/2011):...Visitor list HERE


A few things that jumped out at me:
This August 5, 2011 visit to the president by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and her party of 7 (click for full size):





She made no mention of the visit on her Aug. 5 show. What did she and POTUS discuss? Just wondering…
Fun fact: According to the White House logs, this was Maddow’s fifth trip to the White House — and fourth to see the president personally.


Another busy bee: Convicted felon, Huffington Post/Alinskyite agitator, and husband of Illinois Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Robert Creamer.
According to the newly released records, Creamer was at the White House five times in August 2011 meeting with various officials, including Jon Carson, Cecilia Munoz, and Stephanie Cutter. He’s listed nearly 60 times in visitor logs since the start of the administration.
Corruptocrats of a feather…

This is where these two stories are tied together...

“RED ALERT: Deputy A.G. behind ‘Fast and Furious’ met with President Obama four times during the height of the operation”

Posted this to Twitter last evening, but for those who haven’t already seen it, there’s this interesting time line from Doug Ross, who concludes with a summary and a follow-up question pertaining to what he found:

Summary: In early 2010, Gary Grindler was intimately involved in all aspects of Operation Fast and Furious. During the height of the operation, Grindler visited the President on four separate occasions in only two weeks — his only documented meetings with the president at the White House.
So my question is this:
What did President Obama know — and when did he know it?

And where is the mainstream press on this?

Well, evidently, too busy chasing down Herman Cain’s cellphone records to bother combing through White House visitor log document dumps.

Which should serve as yet another reminder: when the mainstream press is in the bag for “progressive” politics and politicians, they have become nothing more than yet another complicit actor in the left’s attempt at a soft coup.

Given the chance, they will destroy every last bit of opposition, and protect to the end their ideological brethren — at least, to the point where finally throwing them under the bus is a necessary feint to serving the Greater ideological Good.

I fear it will take a civil war and a cultural overhaul to root out the institutionalized leftism too many Americans view fatalistically as a force of nature, and not as a specific and intentionally constructed paradigm under which we are being made to live.

Posted by Jeff G...From protein wisdom

I just had to add this great commentary on the Transparent President...from The ALZ

TIME TO BUST OUT THE TAR AND FEATHERS

The Gunny scoped this on the American Patriot blog site. KUDOS to the American Patriot for posting this for further promulgation.

When you watch this video, remember when President Alinsky stated that he would "run the most TRANSPARENT administration" these 57 states had ever seen. So Robert Gibbs is busted here lying for Obama and one has to wonder did Obama PERMIT the lie? Did Obama agree to the lie? What ELSE has this putrid pile of Kenyan dog squeeze been lying about since 2007 or so?


Now, consider the following:

EXCERPT: "The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico. This means information will now be kept from the public as well as the media. Could this be a cover-up on the part of the “most transparent” administration in history? After all, the rifle used to kill the federal agent (Brian Terry) last December in Arizona’s Peck Canyon was part of the now infamous Operation Fast and Furious. Conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the disastrous scheme allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels."

An American was MURDERED with a firearm that the Obama Administration and the BATFE (ATF) ALLOWED to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels in an attempt to USURP the Second Amendment! To try and backdoor GUN CONTROL on legal Americans living in a semi-free nation!

THE FOUNDERS WOULD ALREADY BE SHOOTING!

A false birth certificate? Who knows because the SCOTUS was gutless.
A false SSN? Who knows because Congress is gutless.
A violator of his Oath of Office? Who knows because Congress refuses to act.
A violator of the Constitution, i.e., Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Uganda, etc? Who knows?

This regime is so corrupt it makes the Mexican prison system look like a bunch of choirboys!
Fellow patriots, the Rule of Law in America is dead and gone. It is looking more and more like WE THE PEOPLE are going to have to apply the Rule of Law on these fugitives from Gitmo sometime after we boot them from office on November 6th, 2012.

BTW liberals, YOUR day to vote is November 7, 2012.

 Posted by The Anti Liberal Zone

From The Weekly Standard

The Upcoming Mooch Gun Roundup???

by Chris Cox from Before It's News

Nearly three years into President Obama’s first term in office, Michelle Obama finally said something with which I can agree.
At a recent fundraiser for President Obama’s re-election campaign in Providence, Rhode Island, the first lady told her audience:

“We stand at a fundamental crossroads for our country. You’re here because you know that in just 13 months, we’re going to make a choice that will impact our lives for decades to come … let’s not forget what it meant when my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court justices … let’s not forget the impact that their decisions will have on our lives for decades to come.”

This was music to the ears of the small, affluent crowd of admirers who cheered and applauded. But to gun owners, Michelle Obama’s remarks should sound like a warning bell, alerting us to the danger ahead should Barack Obama win re-election and get the opportunity to alter the current make-up of the Supreme Court.

When Americans flock to the polls in 13 months, we will not simply decide which direction our country should take over the next four years. Rather, we will decide whether or not our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms will survive over the next several decades.

Read the article here.
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You better believe they will try. They will lose, but – boy – will they try.

Obama Wants A Pass For Terrorists

The way I see it, Obummer wants to ensure that he has a backdoor path for terrorists to escape military custody, and to be entered into the civil legal system, where he knows they will be offered a free pass by the ACLU, the SPLC, and the Caifornia Bar Assoc. amongst others.

FBI Director Robert Mueller has complained legislation backed by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., that would require suspected terrorists -- captured at home and abroad -- to be placed in military custody ties the administration's hands in intelligence gathering and interrogations...Fox News

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday raised significant concerns about requiring military custody for captured suspected terrorists, arguing that the divisive provision in a sweeping defense bill could harm ongoing terrorism investigations.

In a letter to lawmakers, Mueller detailed his concerns with the provision that mandates military custody of a suspect deemed to be a member of al Qaeda or its affiliates and involved in plotting or committing attacks on the United States .

The White House has threatened a veto over the language in the bill and limits on the administration's ability to transfer suspected terrorists.

"Because the proposed legislation applies to certain persons detained in the United States, the legislation may adversely impact our ability to continue ongoing international terrorism investigations before or after arrest, derive intelligence from those investigations and may raise extraneous issues in any future prosecution of a person covered" by the provision, Mueller...

Read More...H/T to Barracuda Brigade

Battlefield USA

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.

“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself,” writes Chris Anders of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.

This means Americans could be declared domestic terrorists and thrown in a military brig with no recourse whatsoever. Given that the Department of Homeland Security has characterized behavior such as buying gold, owning guns, using a watch or binoculars, donating to charity, using the telephone or email to find information, using cash, and all manner of mundane behaviors as potential indicators of domestic terrorism, such a provision would be wide open to abuse...Read the whole story and see WHO IS BEHIND THIS!

Sen. Udall has proposed an ammendment to the bill in question. Linked HERE

Update...11/30/11

Senate rejects ammendment to infinite detention bill

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Senate has overwhelmingly voted down an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have provided oversight to check the military’s power to arrest U.S. citizens as suspected terrorists on American soil and detain them indefinitely without trial.

“The Senate soundly defeated a move to strip out controversial language requiring mandatory detention of some terror suspects, voting it down 61 to 37 and escalating a fight with the Obama administration over the future course of the war on terror,” reports the National Journal.

The amendment, introduced by Colorado Senator Mark Udall, was an attempt to weaken Section 1031 of the NDAA bill, which would basically turn the entire “homeland” into a battlefield and allow the military to arrest individuals accused of being terrorists and detain them indefinitely without trial. Americans would be stripped of all constitutional rights and posse comitatus would cease to exist.

“This would be the first time since the McCarthy era that the United States Congress has tried to do this,” warned Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate, Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program. “In the 1950’s, that was actually repealed before it was ever used. In this case have seen the administration very eagerly hold people without trial for 10 plus years in military detention, so there’s no reason to believe they wouldn’t continue to do that here. So we’re talking about indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens, of lawful U.S. residents as well as of people abroad.”

Sen. Rand Paul Speaks on the Senate Floor on Defense Authorization Act – 11/29/11

Obama Demoralizes Our Military

Thomas Lifson | American Thinker

One of the best ways to destroy American military capabilities would be to convince career military personnel — both officers and enlisted — that their commitment to service will not be rewarded with the retirement benefits they have earned by their faithful obedience to orders, no matter the personal cost or risks they endure. The Obama administration seems to be ready to destroy the belief that service will be rewarded as faithfully as duty was performed, one step at a time.

The latest step in that direction is the announcement that 157 Air Force majors will be terminated prior to retirement, without the opportunity to complete the 20 full years of service necessary to qualify for retirement pay. Caroline May of the Daily Caller writes:

The Chapman University of Military Law and its associated AMVETS Legal Clinic are blowing the whistle on what they say is an injustice set to be perpetrated on 157 Air Force majors on the last day of November.

“The Obama administration has ordered massive reductions in forces, resulting in many officers who are near　retirement　being involuntarily separated without retirement or medical benefits,” explained institute director Maj. Kyndra Rotunda.

The Department of Defense specifies that service members within six years of retirement normally would be retained and allowed to retire on time with benefits,　unless extenuating circumstances exist such as disciplinary issues.

According to lawyers at Chapman and the AMVETS Legal Clinic, the Air Force has deviated from the six-year protection “without any legal authority.”

Read the article here.
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God, deliver us from evil...iowntheworld

Here is one possible response by State Rep. Womick (R-TN) to this traitorous action by the Obama regime. It would most certainly raise moral and offer one incentive for re-enlistment of the most proficient soldiers.

This is exactly why I love John Bolton and one of the reasons I would have voted for him as president. He understands what makes the world safe and when it comes to spending levels, he believes we should invest more in defense because when we are at our strongest, the world is at it’s safest. Now don’t confuse that with nation building, which he is against. But when he’s said in the past that we need to get rid of the wasteful spending and then reinvest that money back in defense, he was serious. Because as he points out here, his philosophy is that America should never be in a fair fight, that we should instead always dominate...The Right Scoop

Read more of Obama's military plans below...to musical accompaniment!

The Arab Spring Choir

C'mon everyone...Join in! You know the old Communist tune. Just add some new lyrics!

From Granny Jan and iowntheworld

The times, they are indeed changing. As I warned of on Saturday; before this new NATO airstrike hit the news; Barack the Utopian may want to push us into a war with Pakistan to advance his political agenda and globalist dreams.

JUST IN---Pakistanis have permanantly closed the border to NATO troops and convoys moving into Afghanistan. Pakistan has also demanded that the US leave an airbase to the southwest which has been used to launch drone strikes. HERE WE GO FOLKS!

No one is going to tell me that this was some kind of an accident; or that there was a lack of communication; or some such blunder. This is a premeditated, planned assault which is having the desired effect on the Pakistanis...ENRAGING THEM to a point where continued action will have to be taken to defend our forces there. I do not deny that there is an ongoing threat from our so-called Paki allies. I question this regime's motivation in making things tougher for our boots on the ground while risking a wider war with a far more dangerous enemy than the Taliban and Al Queida combined.

Conservative columnist Tony Blankley foresees a dangerous future, in which the United States will be able to ensure its own survival only through a universal military draft and may routinely have to commit hundreds of thousands of troops to overseas excursions, including a potential invasion of Pakistan.

Blankley, a former Reagan speechwriter and Newt Gingrich press secretary, is the author of The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? (2005) which raised the specter of a Europe dominated by radical Islam. His new book is called American Grit.

"If we don't do a lot of things smart and tough, we could get overwhelmed," Blankley told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Monday. "We've failed to exploit our energy. We're not paying enough attention to what our kids are learning -- Bill Ayers is actually a senior person in guiding the curriculum design of America."

One of Blankley's more eye-catching proposals in American Grit is that all eighteen year olds should be subject to two years of required military service.

"I don't like it, I love the volunteer army ... but we don't have enough troops," Blankley explained. "When George Bush wanted to have the surge, he was told by the senior generals we didn't have the extra 20,000 troops to finish the war. ... Now Obama wants to go to Afghanistan ... but he says we don't have the troops unless we pull them out of Iraq. What happens if Pakistan goes jihad-y? We don't have the troops to go in there and stop them from taking over the nuclear weapons."

"If we had had enough troops in Iraq, we wouldn't have lost 4,000 great young men and women," Blankley concluded. "We needed to flood the field ... with 300,000 troops occupying every village and every building and they would never have been able to rise up."

It seems possible, however, that Blankley is promoting a universal military draft not just as the necessary pre-requisite for adventures overseas but also as a means of making young Americans "grittier."

In a Washington Times editorial, written just before November's election, Blankley bemoaned the endorsement of Obama by "me-too conservatives" and suggested that "the conservative movement we start re-building on the ashes of November 4th (even if Mr. McCain wins) will have little use for over-written, over-delicate commentary."

"The new conservative movement will be facing a political opponent that will soon reveal itself to be both multiculturalists and Euro-socialist," Blankley wrote. "We will be engaged in a struggle to the political death for the soul of the country. ... I will certainly do what I can to make it a big-tent conservative movement. But just as in every great cause, one question has to be answered correctly: Whose side are you on, comrade?"

This VIDEO is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast Jan. 12, 2009.

"Three years of President Barack Obama’s policies have made the world a more perilous place, aggravating a Mideast situation that could result in an all-out war with a nuclear-armed Iran.", Frank Gaffney tells Newsmax.TV.

“The world will become substantially more dangerous” if the evisceration of the U.S. military, the undermining of American allies — notably Israel — and the emboldening of its enemies continues under the Obama administration, said Gaffney, the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy.

Read more on : Newsmax