Well I agree on the level that we have responsibilities.
But I had heard the thought banied about that one reason we don't have people marching in the streets is because 99.99999% of the guys in Iraq WANT to be there. For every Cindy Sheathead there are 1000 upstanding American soldiers with families that understand what is going on, and what is at stake.
If we put the "disadvantaged" and the street kid who barely can pick his nose let alone find a job in uniform, there will be many more malcontents, all of which have similar family members at home who believe in the power of the social security and disability checks much more so than in the power of their own hard work.
We don't need 125000 more men.
We need unfettered access to middle eastern airspace for about 90 days, and an increase in bomb production.
Take out Damascus and the Syrian military
Take out Teheran and the Iranian military
Take out the Bekaa Valley and everyone who lives there.
Screw them before they finally start blowing themselves up here, which probably isn't that far off.
Remember this.
We are one election away from having the American version of Neville Chamberlain.
And some would say we already have in the person of the greatest sack of crap that occupied the Oval Office in my lifetime.
Jimmah Cahtah.
"If we put the "disadvantaged" and the street kid who barely can pick his nose let alone find a job in uniform"
That's one of those Viet Nam era leftist propaganda nostrums that has become the received wisdom of which I spoke in my last note.
It is not the case that the draft picked exclusively on the poor. Sure, people with money always have a better chance to game the system, but there were plenty of middle- and upper-middle class boys drafted, and plenty of moneyed heirs went through ROTC or other officer procurement programs to avoid being drafted as a private soldier.
Matter of fact, the quality of recruits plunged in the mid-seventies after the draft was ended. I know. I was there and I saw it.
The draft will drive the quality of military personnel up, not down.
"We don't need 125000 more men"
More like ten times that.
"And some would say we already have in the person of the greatest sack of crap that occupied the Oval Office in my lifetime. "
Pshaw. Carter makes Chamberlain look like William the Conqueror.