Elfdart wrote:
If it's just a political ploy, why are draft boards being organized?
--Skip to the end to avoid Bean's ranting
(Engage Ranting Bean mode)
Once agian because I keep hearing this draft bullshit from everyone except memebers of the military
WERE IN F@#$ING HELL DO YOU THINK WE WOULD GET THE NESSARY, ARMS, CLOTHING, HOUSING, AND INSTRUCTORS FOR EVEN FOURTY PERCENT MANPOWER JUMP, LET ALONE A BLOODY !@#$!@$ 200-500% ONE?
FUCKING WAKY LAND?
As for Mr Ned Lebow "A military manpower expert and professor of goverment" little statement about the nessisty of the draft let me bold something he said
"The government is in a bit of a box," Lebow says. "They can hold reservists on active duty longer, and risk antagonizing that whole section of America that has family members who join the Reserves.They can try to pay soldiers more, but it's not clear that works
Just an intresting lead in to what he says
But anyway Mr Lebow goes on to start by comparing this war to Vietnam and then to Afghanastan and say that were lost both(Though it was brought up eariler last week that in the past six months more military service memebers died in traffic accidents in Washington DC alone than in all of Afghanstan)
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End Rant
Now then all that aside three simple problems with the draft
1.Material, Armering, Armoring and Training these new drafteese would be a tremedous undertaking and as the papers love to gleefuly point out, we have enough problems with the force
we have right now
2. Effictly useless in Iraq, alot of poorly trained, moderalty armed troops in Iraq are ineffictive at best, right now we need highly trained folks who will not piss off the natives(As has already been pointed out there have been next to none of active duity military personel invovled in any of the problems in Iraq)
Having more people who don't want to be there is not effective in any way shape or form as the battle nowadays is twofold, intel and hearts and minds
Niether of which a ton of drafteese would help us with
3. Agian, Lack of Arms(M16 production has slowed alot because of the expetant replacement just down the line)
To quote someone while doing a bad Russian Accent
The man with the rifle shoots, the man without the rifle follows, the man with the rifle falls, the man without, picks up the rifle and keeps shooting