Calling All Neocons ~~ Join the Paul Douglas Brigade

Did you know that most Neocons never were in the military. Mark Shields has a really good idea for them:

The Paul Douglas Brigade <---Read the whole thing

......What makes Douglas my hero is that when he enlisted in the Marines, he was 50 years old, which means that when he was wounded in combat on Okinawa, he was 52......

Listening to the recent Washington debate on going to war against Iraq, I thought of the heroic example of Douglas. Immediately, President Bush ought to create by executive order the Paul Douglas Brigade, which would seek and welcome the enlistment into today's active military of middle-aged leaders of Congress, middle-aged leaders of his administration and middle-aged leaders of the vaunted private sector, whose own youthful commitments to their careers, graduate school or personal safety had kept them from answering the draft call that the U.S. government sent individually to everyone in their generation.

That means you Paul Wolfowitz, Tom DeLay, Richard Perle, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Russ Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, John Ashcroft, Bill O'Reilly,