“Some guys wanted to go. Who’s to say what guy took his place?”
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One of your defenses of Bolton was that everyone did their best to avoid serving at the time.
Therefore, highly unlikely the guy who got drafted in his stead wanted to go either.
I’d be curious to know how Bolton would answer the question.
There are always outliers in any situation. A clear majority doesn’t mean nobody wanted to go.
I said everyone, and figuratively that was accurate. There are still people who want to serve with honor and they volunteer or at least answer the call, even in situations like Vietnam.
We never take 100% of the eligible kids. There are always some folks who don’t get drafted.
I’ve heard folks trash Reagan and Trump. They railed on George W. They’re Leftists trying to rip our guys for hypocrisy. I don’t think we do our cause any favors by joining the Left in that.
Our desert fighting capabilities were enhanced during the war with Iraq.
We are going to have wars from time to time. To keep operationally sharp, I think you pretty much have to.
It’s not a good place to be in where only a very few of your active military has any war-time experience.
The civilian death toll was estimated as this: 183,967 – 206,642
Now, how much of that was Iraqi citizens, and how much of it was insurgent terrorists? There were even domestic terrorist to boot.
Is it good for the U. S. to have reduced the populace of folks who thought terrorism was a great thing to pursue?
That’s 200 thousand or so less al Qaeda or other domestic terrorists. That’s 200 thousand less suicide bomber, IED planters, main street markets being targeted in the future.
The nice thing is, Iraq worked as a magnet, with terrorist just lining up to be retired. I’m not seeing that as a bad thing.