Posted on 11/10/2006 1:56:04 PM PST by neverdem
<< .... if we needed a draft .... >>
Moot. There are still sufficient young Americans, may God bless them all, with the integrity, the courage and the resolve to voluntarily defend our nation.
Rather than a Draft, remobilize Charley Rangel and Marine corporal Murrerfurra, perhaps and -- the inability of each of them to ever shape up a forgone conclusion -- ship both out to patrol and police Tikrit's spider holes and Baghdad's airport road.
Not so fast...watch what happens to enlistments after this election #1, and #2 after people figure out what Bob Gates agenda will be.
We lost the Civil War? WW I? WW II? Korea? VN? "manpower management" my butt. Rasing the troops necessary has always relied on a draft, up until the recent all-volunteer force. We will now see if the volunteer army can meet its requirements, under adverse circumstances, really, for the first time.
There's the rub. It works pretty well in Switzerland, but we are not Swiss.
I'm not worried about drafting fit young men, I know the army and marines can turn them into good troops, but the country has changed since the Vietnam war, now the draft would not be used to serve the needs of the army and marines, but instead would be used to convert the military into a new culture, also there would be a non-draft, draft, for those that don't want to, or can't go into the army or marines. The non-draft options would be used to indoctrinate the young, and to mostly serve the wants of the left.
Social engineering seems to be the goal of most new "national service" programs.
They told me it would take three years to get over it. It was a lie. I never will.
Yeah. Mine are both up there in years, I doubt very seriously I'll be able to for much longer.
I know it never goes away, but I'm given to understand that it becomes more tolerable with time.
What's all fine? The entire military isn't going to be adversely affected by leaders who historically and notoriously cut funding for the military and then cut and run - generally after initiating their deployment in the first place (though in this case, Bush had the guts to deal with Hussein's regime even if a decade late)? Hussein WAS a weapon of mass destruction, incidentally. Now, of course, Al Quaeda and the world is just gonna love us and we can all eat crossants, drink tea and view inspiring Islamic art at the Center for Tolerance & Enlightenment.
...and how many of your buddies were helicopter pilots....???
and how many of your buddies were helicopter pilots that could have made that observation???
Your comments were all fine, but they were peripheral to the discussion here.
That's right. Nancy Pelosi says we are not in a war, it is just a "situation".
Germaine, as they're likely to have to initiate a draft if they alienate the military the way liberals usually tend to do. Of course, Democrats just like to lay the groundwork that necessitates someone else having to deal with their little foreign policy messes (a la Al Qaeda, N. Korea, and Iran) after they leave office. Iran - Carter's legacy. Al Qaeda & N. Korea - Clinton's legacy.
You'll have to wait until Nov. 30 to get the numbers for this month.
Draft Jeb Bush's clown son George "P" Bush, who seems to have spent these 5 years of wartime rallying illegal aliens and denouncing the U.S. Border Patrol.
Slave armies are a very bad idea in general. As far as giving something back, it's called taxation.
Want more people to go to war? Bring back prize taking and looting rights.
Not even the Dems would do this - because it would be political suicide - even if enlistment declines catastrophically.
If there were a draft (for a continuing Iraq war), would I dodge it? If I decided not to dodge it, the reason would be spite. All of my relatives would be completely horrified - they would rather see me spend the rest of my life in cold, empty Canada.
He should bring his junkie sister Noelle. She could use the excitement.
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