[Nonstatist]

Rangel is absolutely right, a return to a draft will make it paradoxically impossible to utilize. The potential for riling up opposition internally will be enormous, not to mention the lawsuits and so on. A quarter of the army in rebellion?? Easy to imagine.

Nowadays, if you cant raise the requisite volunteer army,you should scale back your mission.

[DManA]

That is a good way to put it.

Nowadays, if you cant raise the requisite volunteer army,you should scale back your mission.

But that won't prevent me from messing around with it -In a FREE COUNTRY, if you cant raise the requisite volunteer army,you should scale back your mission.

[Jim Noble]

Nowadays, if you cant raise the requisite volunteer army,you should scale back your mission.

We have no control over the scale of the mission.

The fantasy that we do is what's brought the Iraq expedition to grief.