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The following is an edited transcript excerpt of The Michael Knowles Show<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The war in Iran is in its third week, and the U.S. Army is raising the enlistment age to 42. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hearing that news makes me want to pull out the banjo and start playing that old Arlo Guthrie song, \u201cThe Draft Dodger Rag.\u201d <\/span>Have you ever heard that song? I actually played it in my little high school band. <\/span><\/p>\n

It goes like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSarge, I\u2019m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And I always carry a purse<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got eyes like a bat and my feet are flat<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

My asthma\u2019s getting worse\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The whole song is about this guy who doesn\u2019t want to be drafted and is making all these excuses.<\/span><\/p>\n

How quaint it is now, too. \u201cI\u2019m only 18, I\u2019ve got a ruptured spleen, and I always carry a purse.\u201d The excuse is \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m a gay guy.\u201d Under Obama and Biden they were only recruiting gay people. The CIA and the military were putting out commercials about going with your lesbian moms to the pride parade and how that would prepare you for the Army or whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the commercials are getting a little tougher. Now they\u2019re going back to just regular old guys \u2014 disproportionately white guys, actually \u2014 but, you know, just real tough guys.<\/span><\/p>\n

In any case, they\u2019re raising the age. Why? Does this mean the Iran war will go on for years? Does this mean there\u2019s going to be a draft?<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what it means. I think it means the world is getting more dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the fall of the Berlin Wall up until September 11, 2001, we had a vacation from history. And even during the global war on terror, only a very small percentage of Americans actually served in the military. The war dragged on forever, but there was no real intense national focus on winning. It wasn\u2019t even clear what the objectives were. They became vague \u2014 kind of imperial wars with humanitarian justifications: We need to protect women\u2019s education in Afghanistan.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Now the world is starting to feel a little more real. There\u2019s growing talk of multipolarity, and even the current war in Iran \u2014 which has disrupted the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 could threaten the petrodollar. The fact that oil is priced and purchased in U.S. dollars gives the United States a massive advantage on the global stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

You could envision a world \u2014 though I\u2019m not betting on it, as Trump still has my full trust \u2014 where, if things went south, China steps in, demands that oil be purchased in yuan, and triggers a major shift in global power: multipolarity, or even a China-led order.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of that means things are going to get more dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when things get more dangerous, we raise the enlistment age to 42 \u2014 which is a little scary for me. I mean, I barely made the T-ball team \u2014 I\u2019m not the most athletic guy in the world. But I just turned 36 \u2014 I\u2019m still well within range.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, they\u2019re lifting a restriction. Previously, if you had a minor marijuana offense, you weren\u2019t eligible to enlist. Now they\u2019re lifting that restriction. And coincidentally, they\u2019re doing it on April 20th \u2014 4\/20 \u2014 so clearly someone in the Pentagon is having a little fun with that.<\/span><\/p>\n

But regardless of whether you can puff a little devil\u2019s lettuce now, what this is telling you \u2014 once you sober up \u2014 is that the world is getting more dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pentagon is declaring it a<\/span>nd we should be listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"DailyWire<\/p>\n

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