Thanks. I wonder if we will continue to make recruiting targets if we keep this kind of operational tempo up for very long.
I think recruitment depends mostly the economy. What I regret is that we didn't push the targets up when Bush first came in. With the economy steaming along and the jobs market starting to get tight again, it might be difficult to go a lot higher without another 9/11 (God forbid).
I think the Dem party hack and frequent PBS commentator Mark Shields is a jerk, but right after 9/11 he made a good point - that the President needs to involve everyone in the war effort. FDR did that in WW2 and it worked (although the reason the press was so supportive was, IMO, purely because defeating Hitler was also in the interests of their Stalinist puppetmasters).