[Ramius]

we are running out of opinions quickly.

I suppose you meant ~options~. Opinions we seem to have aplenty.

But you've exposed your jerkable knee. If we're just going to pre-emptively nuke every troublespot on the globe, what are all the troops for? Occupying radioactive glass ground? I don't think so.

We don't and we won't need a draft, pretty much no matter what happens. Yes, we're coming to an important turning point in world history. Perhaps more import than the beginning of the last century. Yes, there will be a religious war, and no it will not be of our making. But we'll finish it. How many we'll have to kill is up to them.

Islam writ large must reform. Maybe they'll figure that out. I think we should give them the chance. See if some Mohammed Al-Luther will nail some theses to a Mosque door to get them started. Maybe they will. Maybe they won't. But it isn't up to us. What's up to us is to maybe leave them one way that doesn't lead to oblivion.

[JamesP81]

We don't and we won't need a draft, pretty much no matter what happens.

I'm not so sure. Our Army is smaller than it has been in a long time, at a time when our enemies are numerous. I understand that diluting the volunteer spirit of the military is a bad thing to be avoided, if possible. But there may come a time when we have no choice.

And don't get the idea that I'm some older guy who won't get drafted, either. I'm 24, college educated, in pretty good health, so my rear end would definitely be in the crack if they reinstated the draft,. I simply feel, unlike many of the lazies in my age group, that living on your knees as a muslim dhimmi is far worse than dying on your feet. Yes, avoid a draft if possible. But stopping the islamofascists is priority one.