Can you say "Draft?"

by SeaDood?

From cnn.com today:

"Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. "You really begin to wonder just how much stress and strain there is on the Army, how much longer it can continue," he said in an interview."

So-ooo, what's the next step ?

1) Admit that we can't contain the insurgency, that the?battle plan is flawed and therefore we need to pullout right away (won't happen).

2) Declare victory, pull out and bask in our national greatness? (may happen)

3) Re-Institute the draft and continue battling around the globe until terr'rism is wiped out from the face of the planet. (I'd love to see him try)

4) "Stay the course" and let the casualties accumulate, at least until just before the 2008 presidential elections.? (most likely)

Posted 1/26/2006 8:27:43 AM by SeaDood?

Agree with Joe on this one. We should amend the Constitution (and all state constitutions) to allow for only ONE term in office for any President, senator, or congressman. Let them run again after 2 or three intervening elections, perhaps. But the permanent plundering class is too well-entrenched in D.C. for the current system to be anything approaching effective against it.

Posted 1/26/2006 1:13:15 PM by Vince Daliessio

Typical of governments, when faced with a shortage, the answer is never to use less or (gasp!) reevaluate the necessity of the policy itself. No. It's simply to plunder. That's all that governments do. They do it at every level and with every resource imaginable: money, property...and lives. Fire everybody every time and this would be sharply curtailed.

Posted 1/26/2006 8:42:19 AM by Joe Pulcinella