[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='zionoverfire'][quote name='epobirs'][quote name='zionoverfire'][quote name='epobirs']Where is the entry for "There isn't going to be a draft, you scare-mongering idiots!"[/quote]
Well good luck dealing with Iraq for the next 4 years without one.[/quote]
Bullshit. You're an ill-informed dolt if you believe that. The modern military is not in the cannon fodder business anymore. None of our advantages can be applied with a conscripted force. I know a fair number of serving military personnel, including several whose careers extend back to when there was last a draft in effect, and not a one has any interest in dealing with conscripts.
Despite all the whining from certain sectors the issues in Iraq are not about numbers but rather the willingness to apply force as needed. No additional feet on the ground make the slightest difference if they aren't put to use. Pacification comes from the demonstrated capability to enforce one's will, not from shipping in a crowd to do nothing. This is the lesson of Fallujah.[/quote]
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Roll your eyes all you like, child, but keep in mind I'm old enough to remember when there really was a draft that I expected to still be in place when I came of age and what the average soldier was like back then. Things are hugely different today. The Army was once the job of last resort for high school drop outs. Nowadays they turn people away who don't make the grade on academic ability as an indication of trainability. This isn't like WWII when my father did six weeks at Ft. Dix and was on his way to Austria days later. Conscription simply isn't a practical staffing method for a modern military where each soldier receives a level of technical training that would have been solely for high-level specialists in the Vietnam era.[/quote]
See you just keep writing paragraphs of shit and expecting me to read it.