Draft Comes Back? Let's hope not!

A draft rarely gives any real advantage to a war, unless the strategy was to simply overwhelm the enemy with people till they are exhausted. That has not been considered a viable strategy for decades now.

The surge, as far as I understand it, was to fill in personnel gaps to make sure that Iraqi people themselves (troops and law enforcement) had enough training and understanding to run their own show when we leave. The report from Petraus has shown that some things have gone right (but that depends on how you spin it, really, because no one is willing to take things at face value anymore).

Jam it back in, in the dark.