Exurban League: Did this sound better in German?
"[W]e are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy," said Obama. "We cannot to continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." (link)
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The press is ignoring this astonishing proposal to create a "civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded" AS THE UNITED STATES MILITARY. However, he did propose it. This was a popular idea in Nazi circles in the 1930s. He also proposed a federal mandate to conscript junior and senior high school students into doing 50 hours per year of national service and 100 hours per year for college students.
If McCain proposed this sort of quasi-fascist nonsense, it would be front page news and people would question his sanity. But with Obama, the press just scrubs it from the speech and it is like it never happened.
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