[Bringbackthedraft]

"Never mind there is no draft, that little fact never occurred to them."

The Selective Service Registration is still in effect. So if things get too bad and the recruiters come way under quota and we are over committed???

[OldFriend]

If if if I were to run the Boston Marathon in the morning, that would be something, wouldn't it?

[Sci Fi Guy]

The Selective Service Registration is still in effect. So if things get too bad and the recruiters come way under quota and we are over committed???

1. Bush does not want to increase the size of our military (it's one of the few things he's doing wrong in the war.)

2. Under Reagan, our non-draft military was approx twice the size it is today. So it is possible to recruit the people we need.

3. A draft would take months to enact, and much longer before any troops would be trained. Not quick enough to respond to any specific crisis.

4. A draft would be needed in a major long drawn out conflict. Say for example china tries to take over the far east i.e. japan, s.korea, etc. Then we would be facing a potentially long war, requiring a large military.