WNY Editorial Wonders if DRAFT is Coming

[Dems Will Win]

THis editorial states quite correctly that given Bush's Strategery, the only choice left to him is to simply use air strikes, which don;t work, or reinstate the DRAFT.

The Stretched-Thin Military Needs Bodies. We know that Bush's Middle East agenda also is suffering because the U.S. military is spread way thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the desertion rates are high, soldiers are not re-enlisting at the usual clip, recruitment isn't working and illegal scams are being used to lure youngsters into signing up. In short, there are no forces to spare on the ground. Either a military draft will be instituted -- and the recent call up of thousands of ready-reserve Marines is a draft by a different name -- or all future attacks will have to come from air power or from missiles, which will merely deliver a message. The air attacks will result in making the citizens of those countries even angrier at America, and with little likelihood of success in forging U.S.-friendly "democratic" governments in Iran, Syria, et al., since the bombed populations will support their existing governments. In short, America's and Israel's failures in Iraq and Lebanon demonstrate the limits of highly-armed powers in the modern, nationalist-guerrillas world.

http://www.wnymedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1972&Itemid=35

VOTE REPUBLICAN IN '06, GET THE DRAFT IN '07

[AndyA]

1. But...but...but...but Bush said during the 2004 campaign there would

not be a draft. You mean he lied to us? I AM SHOCKED - SHOCKED I TELL YOU!

[Justitia]

2. Nah, they'll just keep punishing the troops already there, and abusing

the others in the pipeline of either direction.

This is one bad administration to get stuck serving under.

[muesa]

3. Hezbollah proved - conclusively

that air power is worse then useless against a well dug in guerilla force that has backing in the civilian community and that is widely dispersed in that civilian community.

Of course - that should have been painfully obvious since VietNam and after the first few weeks in Iraq.

But Bush does have the opportunity to use $120K per year Halliburton mercenaries.