[BlessingInDisguise]

Big deal. If we ever need a load of soldiers they'll just draft us.

[decimon]

Big deal. If we ever need a load of soldiers they'll just draft us.

Huge deal! Reinstate the draft and there will be a replay of the sixties; riots in the cities and turmoil on the campuses and marches on the Pentagon and all the rest.

[mamelukesabre]

You can't turn a bunch of young inexperienced civilians into soldiers over night. Especially if you don't even have the man power or the facilities to train them all. It would take some time.