Draft Comes Back? Let's hope not!

I still think that unless there is another major conflict (say, Iran openly attacks Iraq) the political support for this would be minimal, at best. Honestly though, I think it would be too little, too late to draft as a reactionary measure as you cannot train a large body of un-trained soldiers in days or weeks but rather months, and by then it may be too late.

I would rather this didn't happen, but it seems as if poor war strategy by the Bush administration is limiting the (dignified) alternatives.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Winter Storm

^If he reinstate the draft, assasination attempts would be so out of control that he'd have to do his business underground. The country as a whole would not go for a draft. We've lost enough lives to this pointless "war on terrorism" as it is. The bush administration wants the people to take care of thier mistakes, with thier lives. That's message I get from them, and this "consideration of a draft" just confirms it.

I don't think it was the President who was reccomending it, but his newly appointed war Czar. I recall reading an article several days ago stating that the Bush was still against the draft (in response to the statement), so it seems unlikely he would take that course of action unless the situation changed. Bush has pretty much ignored most recommendations that have conflicted with his strategy (i.e. the Iraq Study Group report) so I don't see why this would be any different.

There's nowhere I can't reach.