reeb,
I got no issues with a draft provided it's used to fill up support services and not combat arms. I can't think of anything more harmful than filling the ranks with the unwilling and the unmotivated. Such troops can be more a liability than an asset if they are not properly led.
If we haven't got the arms and legs to fulfill commitments to all these little wars, maybe it's time to start closing up a few shops. If the only way Iraq is going to straighten itself out is by splitting up along ethnic lines, then it really isn't our business, is it? Why are we freaking out trying to make sure it stays one country when the indigs clearly don't want it to be?
Bring 'em home, and from Afghanistan too, and let 'em sort out their own back yards.
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