Your voice isn't dissident. Broadsheet swarms with folks who post the things you post. Assuming positions contrary to mainstream feminism doesn't qualify you as dissident. You'd have to assert something novel to be dissident.

Say, we should date! You're a woman. You think I'm a man. I'll pick you up at eight and I'll bring you a surprise!

And we can talk about how I do agree that women should be drafted, however, I see your assertion and raise it: I think everyone between the ages of 20 and 65 should be drafted. Only quads and the blind should be exceptions. If people vote for war-mongering presidents like Bush and the wanna-be McCain, they shouldn't expect someone else to bleed for their bloodlust.

Then it's a date. Let's make it November 4th and we'll both vote for Obama.

As regards oil, it's yesterday's technology. What we need is innovation. Forward thinking.

Japan didn't fare well in the 1930s when it practiced imperialism to procure natural resources.

It fared quite well, post-imperialism, when it applied innovation and education to adapt to limited resources. The U.S. should do likewise.

As regards dissent, yes, you do diverge from Broadstreet's writers, but there's a mob of Broadsheet posters who assert similar things.

As far as a broad draft rendering a lesser military, I can likely drive a tank better than a 20-year old with my greater experience piloting vehicles. Why should twenty-somethings die in Hummers when fifty-somethings can drive them just as well?

So, you think it's surreal and scary that a reader would urge you to do something more than mimic Michael Myer's Linda Goodman, who gives us a topic to discuss amongst ourselves while she's away. You're not feeling verklempt, are you? Is that why you Broadsheet writers post and bunker yourself in silence?

Is it surreal and scary when Ms. Walsh and Mr. Greenwald respond to their readers? Are you less able to defend your position or engage your readers than them? I left Broadsheet for the rest of Salon for a while and I'm quickly being reminded why I left Broadsheet.

I'm not scary. I am frustrated at your Broadsheet's systemic reduction of Hitchens' analysis to a title. Doing so bonds you to the many feminist blogs, but it distances you from the serious people who do analysis beyond titles.

You've flown over the West, right? It's mostly space. Trees. Rocks. Desert. Why not fill Wyoming with solar panels? Anything that gets us off the sauce is patriotic. Drill, baby, drill, just perpetuates our addiction to oil. The U.S. makes marvelously efficient solar panels that are largely sold to Germany and Japan. In the short-term, it's good for the trade imbalance, but in the long-term, we're exporting our energy independence. Of course, some drilling is necessary, but given what we consume and how much oil the U.S. can pump out of its territory, our drilling is a pittance of the solution.

As far as 50-year old grunts, I would say, "Whoever can charge a bunker with a 90-lb. pack should be given a rifle. This doesn't mean that women and 57-year olds get to shirk danger. As you know, driving a Hummer is dangerous.

Many Germans have lost their bloodlust. That's because so many Germans bled. It's time for Joe the Plumber and Judy the Housewife to bleed. We've been bombing other countries pert near every year since WWII, but it's been young men, largely, who've bled. I do think it's time for nearly every American to pony up some blood if it's war and war and war we want.

Did you ever read the book, "Starship Stormtroopers"? The author predicates citizenship upon serving in the military. You can have a fine life, but you can't vote unless you serve. I'm not advocating that, but I am tempted. I think that W would have been a different man if he'd served. Ike, after being the ultimate soldier, stated that every bomb built was food taken from a child's mouth. Can you imagine W ever observing this fact?

I know those cowboys out West wouldn't like all those panels, but it's incumbent upon American leadership to sell sacrifice. What we've been sold for decades is that someone else will volunteer for war, another generation will pay for our wars, and the party never stops. Some fundies squawk about how degenerate gay people are, but we're a nation of degenerates, unwilling to pay for what we want. We're not generating prosperity or a promising future. We're collectively degenerating America's future.

I don't know why the military doesn't rebel, why they don't drop their rifles and come home and say, "Okay, you fight if you want the oil that much."

As far as maintaining our lifestyles by imperialism, we've lost the moral high ground. We should admit that we're Japan, circa 1935. And we should come up with an oily equivalent for lebensraum.