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<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">The following is an edited transcript excerpt of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mks-ep-1939-sub?elementPosition=0&;row=0&;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">The war in Iran is in its third week, and the U.S. Army is raising the enlistment age to 42. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Hearing that news makes me want to pull out the banjo and start playing that old Arlo Guthrie song, “The Draft Dodger Rag.” </span><span style="font-weight:400">Have you ever heard that song? I actually played it in my little high school band. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">It goes like this:</span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">“Sarge, I’m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">And I always carry a purse</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">I’ve got eyes like a bat and my feet are flat</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">My asthma’s getting worse”</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">The whole song is about this guy who doesn’t want to be drafted and is making all these excuses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">How quaint it is now, too. “I’m only 18, I’ve got a ruptured spleen, and I always carry a purse.” The excuse is — “I’m a gay guy.” 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>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Now the commercials are getting a little tougher. Now they’re going back to just regular old guys — disproportionately white guys, actually — but, you know, just real tough guys.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">In any case, they’re raising the age. Why? Does this mean the Iran war will go on for years? Does this mean there’s going to be a draft?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">I don’t think that’s what it means. I think it means the world is getting more dangerous.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">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’t even clear what the objectives were. They became vague — kind of imperial wars with humanitarian justifications: <em>We need to protect women’s education in Afghanistan.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Now the world is starting to feel a little more real. There’s growing talk of multipolarity, and even the current war in Iran — which has disrupted the Strait of Hormuz — 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>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">You could envision a world — though I’m not betting on it, as Trump still has my full trust — 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>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">All of that means things are going to get more dangerous.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">And when things get more dangerous, we raise the enlistment age to 42 — which is a little scary for me. I mean, I barely made the T-ball team — I’m not the most athletic guy in the world. But I just turned 36 — I’m still well within range.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Also, they’re lifting a restriction. Previously, if you had a minor marijuana offense, you weren’t eligible to enlist. Now they’re lifting that restriction. And coincidentally, they’re doing it on April 20th — 4/20 — so clearly someone in the Pentagon is having a little fun with that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">But regardless of whether you can puff a little devil’s lettuce now, what this is telling you — once you sober up — is that the world is getting more dangerous.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The Pentagon is declaring it a</span><span style="font-weight:400">nd we should be listening.</span></p>
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The Army Just Made A Few Changes That Make Me Think One Thing
