Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't think a draft is out of the realm of possibility. Hell, I've even started picking at my g/f that I'm gona be a perfect fit, "once they start the draft":a healthy, unmarried, childless, 23-year-old male college grad who is not an only child. No exemptions here! :P (I know, this is going on the assumptions that there would be exemptions, or that they would be the same as in earlier drafts, etc. It does not matter, anyway, since I would not claim such an exemption even if it existed.) I support a draft, if the situation calls for it. I'm only saying that this is not likely to be that kind of situation. (key phrase: not likely.)
I don't think I made myself clear before wandering off into the 'reserves are still waiting in the wings' portion of my no-draft paragraph: to actually pass a draft law would be near political suicide for lawmakers, unless by some sublime stroke of idiocy Iraq or NK managed to nuke/bomb/gas an American city (and claimed responsiblity for it, especially in the Iraqi case, as they have no way of doing so outside of 'terrorist' methodology [that we know of]), AND we didn't resond with a nuke or nukes of our own...then the American populace would rise as one massive beast, much as we did after 9/11, ad support most any means necessary to deal with said attack. Vengeful? Yes. American? Damn right. Truth hurts.
However, this scenario is extremely, EXTREMELY unlikely, and most Americans won't support drafting our young people to fight a war which we, in public opinion, started. (With or without cause - don't jump me for that. I support going to war with Saddam, but in the grand old "he who hits first started the fight" sense, well...you decide.) Put yourself in a politicain's (slippery, slimy, forked-tongued) shoes: would YOU want to be the poor Rep. from, say, Iowa or Pennsylvania, who proposed (and helped pass) an unpopular draft bill?
lol...in other words: I agree.
I don't think I made myself clear before wandering off into the 'reserves are still waiting in the wings' portion of my no-draft paragraph: to actually pass a draft law would be near political suicide for lawmakers, unless by some sublime stroke of idiocy Iraq or NK managed to nuke/bomb/gas an American city (and claimed responsiblity for it, especially in the Iraqi case, as they have no way of doing so outside of 'terrorist' methodology [that we know of]), AND we didn't resond with a nuke or nukes of our own...then the American populace would rise as one massive beast, much as we did after 9/11, ad support most any means necessary to deal with said attack. Vengeful? Yes. American? Damn right. Truth hurts.
However, this scenario is extremely, EXTREMELY unlikely, and most Americans won't support drafting our young people to fight a war which we, in public opinion, started. (With or without cause - don't jump me for that. I support going to war with Saddam, but in the grand old "he who hits first started the fight" sense, well...you decide.) Put yourself in a politicain's (slippery, slimy, forked-tongued) shoes: would YOU want to be the poor Rep. from, say, Iowa or Pennsylvania, who proposed (and helped pass) an unpopular draft bill?
lol...in other words: I agree.
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