The Return of the Draft (Rolling Stone)

[clem_c_rock]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6862691?rnd=1108016601231&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.847

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But experts on military manpower say the focus on drafting personnel with special skills misses the larger point. The Army needs more soldiers, not just more doctors and linguists. "What you've got now is a real shortage of grunts -- guys who can actually carry bayonets," says McPeak. A wholesale draft may be necessary, he adds, "to deal with the situation we've got ourselves into. We've got to have a bigger Army."

Michael O'Hanlon, a military-manpower scholar at the Brookings Institute, believes a return to a full-blown draft will become "unavoidable" if the United States is forced into another war. "Let's say North Korea strikes a deal with Al Qaeda to sell them a nuclear weapon or something," he says. "I frankly don't see how you could fight two wars at the same time with the all-volunteer approach." If a second Korean War should break out, the United States has reportedly committed to deploying a force of nearly 700,000 to defend South Korea -- almost half of America's entire military.
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[clem_c_rock]

1. I know the draft is old news

[tnlefty]

2. kick

but, but, but the naked as a jaybird emperor* said over and over that there wouldn't be a draft, and you know that you can believe anything and everything that he says.

[paineinthearse]

3. For the 1004th time....volunteer to serve on your local draft board.

http://www4.sss.gov/localboardmembers/bminquiry.asp

[beanball]

4. The commandering thief

has painted himself into a corner and in order to escape,there are two things he can do and both will cost him dearly.Bring back the draft,or cut the tax breaks he gave his rich friends.In either case his true blue friends will turn on him like a pack of wolves.

[BillZBubb]

5. They won't turn on him.

That's wishful thinking. Those idiots stick together no matter how disgusting the activity. They will instead find a way to blame the evil liberals for forcing him to do something he hoped to never do. The sheeple will believe it.